1997: The Field Museum bought the T. rex named Sue at auction for $8.36 million. It went on display in 2000, and moved into new digs upstairs at the museum in 2018.

Pope Leo XIV has adopted a more low-key, less combative style to his predecessor in the early months of his papacy. Pope Francis’s openness to the LGBTQ community, advocacy for migrants and critiques ...

On Oct. 4, 1965, Pope Paul VI arrived at Kennedy International Airport in New York on the first visit by a pope to the United States.

On Oct. 4, 1965, Pope Paul VI arrived at Kennedy International Airport in New York on the first visit by a pope to the United States.

The pope’s statement calling out the inhumane treatment of immigrants by the United States predictably infuriated conservatives and prompted a response by the White House.

This lack of change is tragic and reflects a fundamental challenge for the proclamation of Catholic moral teaching. Even more sadly, this controversy—a predictable cycle of offense and outrage—has ...

It’s time to play “spot the headline,” a game that I have — for decades — watched mainstream journalists play as they cover the papacy.

The leader of the Catholic Church stepped into political waters again this week, and the ripples are already being felt ...

Pope Leo had condemned capital punishment and what he described as the 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the United States ...

Cupich was a close adviser to Pope Francis, who strongly upheld church teaching opposing abortion but also criticized the politicizing of the abortion debate by U.S. bishops. Some bishops had called ...

Conservative Catholics had hoped that Pope Francis' reforms would follow him into the tomb, but they must reckon with the fact that it is they, not Pope Leo or Cardinal Cupich, who need a course ...