Political partisanship is likely to become an even more untenable position for American Catholics than it already is.

Bishop Mark L. Bartchak will preside at a Diocesan Mass celebrating the election of Pope Leo XIV at noon Wednesday, May 14, at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Altoona.

But they are as politically opposite as it gets. First blessing: Pope Leo XIV used his first Sunday address to the faithful ...

A joyous glow filled the inside of Nativity Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral, marking the first Sunday with a new Holy Father.

Father Robert Billing, rector of the Catholic National Shrine and Basilica of Our Lady, at Walsingham, Norfolk, was speaking ...