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

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

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

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

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

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 ...