NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Reverend William Lego, of St Turibius Parish in Chicago, who attended seminary with Pope Leo XIV.

Efforts to mediate the India-Pakistan conflict are not going to work "unless the U.S. steps in with full sincerity," Praveen ...

For close watchers of the Catholic Church, the election of a U.S. pope seemed impossible. The "Trump effect" on the U.S. and ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Massimo Faggioli, professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University — the new Pope's alma mater — about the direction the Catholic Church will likely ...

Trade negotiators from the U.S. and China are starting talks this weekend in Switzerland. These are the first high-level ...

A $1 million-per-plate campaign dinner? That was so April. Just 11 days after President Donald Trump hosted a $1 million dinner for the MAGA Inc. Super PAC, he kicked it up another notch in May ...