How should American Catholics respond to the U.S. attacks on Iran? Perhaps the Feast of Corpus Christi offers a counterpoint to the god of war, power and vengeance invoked by so many today.

Pope Francis honored women's contributions to the life of the church. I trust Pope Leo XIV to do the same.

In Pope Leo's early days, he has woven together an emphasis on synodality and social teaching with faithfulness to doctrine and truth.

We should approach Pope Leo XIV looking not for his alignment with the set of questions we bring to him, but with trust that the Holy Spirit is at work.

Pope Leo XIV denounced the “violent conflict [that] seems to be raging in the Christian East with a diabolical intensity previously unknown” and said the Christians of the West must do more to help the Christians of the East, especially those suffering in Ukraine, Gaza and other places in the Middle East.

History's first American pope reaffirmed Wednesday that the primary role of bishops is to forge unity in his diocese among clergy and to be close to his flock in word and deed.