A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church's teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in ...

The recent death of Pope Francis I stirred memories for Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek Barbara Weiden Boyd, who recalls ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name ...

He was hailed as a progressive reformer and also attacked as a revolutionary.

In many ways, Pope Francis embodied a tension at the heart of Catholicism in the 21st century: too liberal for some Catholics ...

It was introduced into the Roman Catholic Church in the 15th century by Pope Gregory XI, then removed from the calendar by Pope Pius V in the mid 16th century. Pope Sixtus V later reestablished ...