The new pope has taken a name that recalls Pope Leo XIII, who wrote the outline for modern Catholic social justice teaching.

VATICAN CITY — White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled ...

For Catholic theologians, the significance of the name could not be clearer, with the new pope tying himself to one of the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic ...

Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, has spent much of his ...

A Brazilian judge has ordered the arrest of a man suspected of being involved in an alleged plot to place explosives at a ...

U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman appeared skeptical during a hearing Wednesday of the administration’s arguments that a little-known provision in federal labor law allows it to exclude several ...

Fireworks is the country's old tradition, dating back to the time of the Order of the Knights of St John. The Order celebrated the most important feasts with special pyrotechnic displays. Later, ...

The top attorney for a California board that enforces labor rules said Thursday that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office may have violated state law over its handling of an order directing many public ...