SHREVEPORT – The white smoke rose from the Vatican, and Pope Leo XIV has delivered his inaugural Mass in the past two weeks. Robert Prevost became the first American to ascend to the head of the ...

As an immigrant temporary professed Trinitarian friar in Maryland, I think often about the historical complexity of the Catholic Church in the United States; specifically, I'm curious about how the ...

St. Patrick Catholic Church and other steeples dot the landscape in the Walker's Point neighborhood near the corner of West Washington Street and South 7th Street in Milwaukee on Thursday, Sept. 26, ...

The lecture examines the long and tangled modern history of Catholicism and democracy, with one eye toward its implications for the study of global history and another toward our understanding of the ...

FILE - Archbishop of Washington Wilton Gregory, left, greets parishioners following Mass at St. Augustine Church in Washington in this June 2019 photo. Gregory was the first African American in charge ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is a long shot, though some are cautiously optimistic ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS)—LSUS history professor Dr. Cheryl White, who has expertise in Catholicism, will give a talk about the significance of Pope Leo XIV’s American and Louisianian connections ...

Catholics across Texas cheered as they watched news coverage of white smoke emerge from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, a sign that a gathering of cardinals in the conclave had finally ...

Founded in 1990 by the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus, Black Catholic History Month runs throughout November each year as an opportunity to highlight the heritage, patrimony, and witness of ...