We welcome the new archbishop, Ronald Hicks. His unequivocal support for the rights of the unborn, and his embrace of the ...

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John J. Raskob — the man behind the Empire State Building and several Wall Street and workplace innovations — in ...

Will Pope Leo XIV follow the progressive example of his predecessor or chart a more moderate course? His work in Chicago and ...

The first Muslim mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, was inaugurated as the 112th mayor on January 1, 2026. While some ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday announced a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York, tapping Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet, Illinois to lead one of the nation’s largest and most influential ...

Thank you, Cardinal Dolan, recipient of AJC’s Isaiah Award for Exemplary Interreligious Leadership, for being the champion of ...

Under the heading, “a picture is worth a thousand words,” here is a look back at the images of some of the most defining ...

Rome: Pope Leo has an odd kind of half-smile that leaves observers unsure of what he is really thinking. “I call it his ‘Mona ...

Now Pope Leo XIV, the first American spiritual leader of the world’s 1.4bn Catholics, has picked a cleric of a very different ...

"Playing havoc with Leo's appointment to replace Dolan looks like a disruptive move by those who realize that the U.S. church ...

In a recent Veterans Day speech, Trump called his political opponents “vermin,” classifying them as more serious enemies than ...