As Catholics, our arms will be wide open to the world. We will accompany the world. We will live in the world.

Former President Barack Obama congratulated his "fellow Chicagoan" Robert Francis Prevost on Thursday on his historic ...

History was made on Thursday when Robert Francis Prevost was selected as the first American head of the Catholic Church, ...

Another Chicagoan offered kind words to the new pope on Thursday, as former President Barack Obama sent a message on social ...

The faithful cheered in the Vatican square, waving flags from many countries in celebration at the arrival of the news ...

Michelle Obama's journey to becoming first lady didn't come without hesitation and practical concerns. Since leaving the White House, the wife of the ...

By the grace of God, Pope Francis’s successor will avoid a page out of American politics. Hopefully, the new pope will not be the “Trump of the Vatican” - a ...

Richard Nixon, who, in 1974, became the only president to resign from office, wrote a series of books in the 1980s and 1990s that sought to redeem his own sullied image by casting himself as a ...