A wreath laying procession and taps played on a trumpet were part of the annual Memorial Day ceremony at the Vietnam Memorial Wall in South Chicago. The annual event, held at 91st ...

Born in Chicago as Robert Prevost in 1955, the new pope for the past decade has held dual citizenship in the U.S. and Peru, ...

The rules behind Pope Leo remaining a US citizen now he’s a foreign head of state - Other US citizens have served as foreign ...

John G. Vlazny, who served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Portland between 1997 and 2013, died Friday at his Beaverton residence, the church announced Sunday. He was 88.

Popes — they're just like us? Not exactly, but you wouldn't know that by the American fanfare surrounding the newly minted ...

For The Rev. Fr. Juan Manuel Camacho, there's opportunity in the fact that Pope Leo XIV is from Chicago, along the same Great ...

The Catholic Church has always been central to Creole identity. The Prevosts aren’t the only ones who passed into white ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

“Americanism” has often been called a “phantom heresy”, blamed on a French translation of a biography of Father Isaac Hecker, ...

The audacious feat, one of the biggest jailbreaks in Louisiana history, exploited safety issues in the jail that had previously been cited by federal authorities.