Daniel Burke

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR, a congregation in Los Angeles, about her message this year...

Since 1954, an IRS rule had barred houses of worship from explicitly endorsing political candidates.

Pope Leo XIV and Ukraine's President Zelenskyy spoke by phone recently, according to the Vatican.

During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected pope, the first time an American has led the Roman Catholic Church. Prevost, 69,...

Black smoke streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday morning in Rome, signaling that the 133 cardinal...

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes are on...

The man remembered today at a funeral in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis, was once very different.

From consoling a young boy whose father had recently died, to preaching in an eerily empty St. Peter's Square during...

Pope Francis was a master of making emotional connections. He was, at heart, a pastor to wounded souls. Here are...

In Pope Francis' autobiography Hope he reiterates themes of his papacy like hatred of war and unchecked capitalism, and a...