The US-born pontiff highlighted flaws within the conservative "pro-life" movement, which seeks to ban abortions across the US ...

Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, who presides over Durbin’s home diocese, had in September said Durbin was ...

A tumultuous five hours on Tuesday began at about 2 p.m. ET, when an EWTN Vatican journalist asked Pope Leo XIV to address ...

"Someone who says 'I'm against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty' is not really pro-life," Leo told ...

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

Church teaching forbids abortion, but it also opposes capital punishment as "inadmissible" under all circumstances. U.S.

The first American pope is a native of Chicago. Senate defeats House-passed bill to reopen government, despite Democratic ...

Sen. Dick Durbin said he was "overwhelmed" by the support he received from Pope Leo after facing criticism for his long-held ...

Pope Leo XIV jumped into the U.S.'s seemingly never-ending abortion debate and offered his own view of what it means to truly ...

Pope Leo XIV didn't have a problem with Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin receiving a lifetimme achievement award from the church. Some Catholic priests did.

“Someone who says ‘I’m against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty’ is not really pro-life,” Leo said.

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