By then, Considine had become head of the U.S. bishops’ Latin America Bureau. He worked with the onetime Catholic priest and ...

The Holy Father also shared light refreshments with staff present Thursday morning to celebrate with them the 43rd ...

After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

On the anniversary of his priestly ordination, Pope Leo XIV travels to the Vatican Radio shortwave transmission center in the ...

The last Pope to visit Santa Maria di Galeria, where there were once 28 enormous antennas of Vatican Radio broadcasting on ...

In World War II, the Holy See once again declared itself entirely neutral from the beginning, but Pope Pius XII expressed ... the right hand corner is the US American Arcbishop Martin O’Connor.

On May 8, the day Pope Leo XIV was elected as our new Holy Father, he told the faithful, “Today is the day of the Prayer of ...

"In those days, Argentina was a kind of paradise to us." Even before World War II, Argentina was closely linked to Nazi ...

Though many of us are still reeling from the sheer improbability of Leo XIV’s election as the first American pope, the significance ... this is the post-Vatican II American Catholic story ...

John Paul II appointed ... the Latin American bishops, though he was not so well known then. Think about it! An American Augustinian who was a missionary bishop and was called by the pope ...

Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who dedicated his life to serving the ...

A small number of Americans, though, believe we’ve already had an American pope ... Vatican II exhilarating, for others, it was deeply disorienting. Many Catholics felt alienated by the rapid changes, ...