Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, who presides over Durbin’s home diocese, had in September said Durbin was ...

A tumultuous five hours on Tuesday began at about 2 p.m. ET, when an EWTN Vatican journalist asked Pope Leo XIV to address ...

"Someone who says 'I'm against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty' is not really pro-life," Leo told ...

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy ...

Cupich was a close adviser to Pope Francis, who strongly upheld church teaching opposing abortion but also criticized the ...

In a rare moment of direct commentary on American politics, Pope Leo XIV ignited a firestorm among conservative Catholics and ...

Church teaching forbids abortion, but it also opposes capital punishment as "inadmissible" under all circumstances. U.S.

The first American pope is a native of Chicago. Senate defeats House-passed bill to reopen government, despite Democratic ...

Sen. Dick Durbin said he was "overwhelmed" by the support he received from Pope Leo after facing criticism for his long-held ...

Pope Leo XIV jumped into the U.S.'s seemingly never-ending abortion debate and offered his own view of what it means to truly ...

Pope Leo XIV didn't have a problem with Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin receiving a lifetimme achievement award from the church. Some Catholic priests did.