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ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV underwent surgery Tuesday that confirmed that he has lung cancer, and doctors removed the lower lobe ...

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In a statement shared exclusively with RNS, 35 organizations wrote that the decline in hate crimes registered by the FBI ...

The American pontiff has offered a rare level of transparency about the first publicly disclosed major health problem of his ...

Like Francis, Leo understands the synodal process is more important than any teaching that comes out of the event.

As Pope Leo XIV prepares for surgery to remove a lung nodule, questions have arisen about what prompted the procedure, how ...

The Vatican typically allows criminal investigations to play out before initiating canonical trials so as not to interfere, ...

In a now-erased social media post, the Texas pastor compared Huckabee, a staunch supporter of Israel, to convicted Fort Hood ...

Jim Bakker turned religious intimacy into an American empire—and showed how faith, fame, fraud and reinvention could share the same stage.