Religion-State Relations

The surprising election of the first American pope felt fraught and disorienting to Roman Catholics around the world, who had

Pope Leo XIV Aligns Himself With ‘Ordinary People’ in His First Mass

Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States, presided over his first Mass as leader of 1.4 billion Roman

The last several months for American Catholics have been a story about the ascent of the Catholic right. In January,