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

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 ...

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.