Sarah Mullally will begin the role early next year and will be the first female church leader since women were allowed to ...

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming ...

In the early 14th century, Europe witnessed a clash of power between the crown and the church unlike anything before. King Philip IV of France defied Pope Boniface VIII, challenging the authority of ...

Sarah Mullally, the bishop of London, has been named Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time a woman has been chosen as the ...

For the first time since being elected in May, Pope Leo XIV waded into U.S. politics, criticizing those who say they’re against abortion but support the death penalty, saying that’s “not really ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV took aim Wednesday at skeptics who "ridicule those who speak of global warming," as he strongly embraced Pope Francis' environmental legacy and made it his own in some of his ...

Today in History for Sept. 29: In 1547, Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish poet, playwright and novelist, the creator of "Don Quixote," was born. In 1560, King Gustav I of Sweden, founder of the Vasa ...