While Pope Leo XIV presides over a flock of 1.4 billion people from within Vatican City, there’s one worldly responsibility he may not escape: Uncle Sam.

In his first “Urbi et Orbi” (To the City and to the World), the new pope, Leo XIV, opened with Latin to send greetings of ...

Reporters have rarely been fans of faith in politics, and often decry the Republican Party’s cozy relationship with religious ...