Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S.

ROME (AP) – The Roman basilica of the Augustinians – Pope Leo XIV's religious order – preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...