While the Catholic Church in Rome has looked to Europe and the Middle East for its leaders for almost 2000 years, on Thursday it chose the first pope from the United States, one with Oklahoma ties.

Robert Prevost has never had direct relations with Moscow, but the name he chose evokes very important relations in the history of relations between East and West in the ancient and modern Church, fro ...

We bring students from Africa, Asia and more recently Latin America, and our students are placed ... Oxford University where he received a D.Phil in Syriac patristics (study of Early Church fathers).

The Rev. Ajani Gibson, who heads the predominantly Black congregation at St. Peter Claver Church in New Orleans, said he sees the pope’s roots as a reaffirmation of African American influence on ...

“Together, we must try to find out how to be a missionary church, a church that builds ... Francis, history's first Latin American pope, clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw ...

African American influence on Catholicism The Rev. Ajani Gibson, who heads the predominantly Black congregation at St. Peter Claver Church in New Orleans, said he sees the pope's roots as a ...

Biden added that he was pleased to see an American appointed as the Catholic Church’s new leader. Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass at the Sistine Chapel with the College of Cardinals at 11 a.m ...