From Rome to Raleigh, the theme was joy and hope as Pope Leo XIV became the first pontiff from the United States.

People who were near the campus of Catholic University in Northeast D.C. got the news that a new pope had been elected when the bells of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate ...

and I found that to be a beautiful thing.” Longtime journalist Annette Gonzales Taylor worked in public relations for the church when, in 2015, the head of the Roman Catholic Church visited ...