Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ May 9 The Washington Post says Donald Trump is destroying programs that help prepare for natural disasters President Donald Trump’s ...

But Leo's historic election last week to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics as the first U.S.-born pope means that the ...

Pope Leo XIV is being scrutinized for how he might interact with the Trump administration after its rifts with the late Pope ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — When Cardinal Robert Prevost emerged from the loggia of St. Peter’s as Pope Leo XIV on Thursday (May 8), ...

Cardinal Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota who traveled to Rome for the papal conclave, ...

In an interview with MSNBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had only more warnings for the future ...

Criminal justice reform has long been one of the most divisive issues between Democrats who control the Illinois General Assembly and the Republican minority.

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

Pontiff makes veiled swipe at Trump with call to ‘disarm our words’ - The press conference comes after the newly elected ...

Sport is religion in Chicago. The biggest question locals had here once Cardinal Robert Prevost became the new pope was which ...

Meanwhile, welcome to the real pope, Leo XIV. I’m hoping he puts our toxic mini-me pope’s feet to the fire. And reminds a ...

Pope Leo XIV was chosen as the new pope Thursday, becoming the first American pope. Here is where Hispanic Catholics in the U ...