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Mr. Gibson is the director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University. Since his election in May as the first American pope, Leo XIV has become a political and temperamental ...

A game that's been circled on the schedule since St. John's and Rick Pitino replaced UCLA in the CBS Sports Classic. The "C-A-T-S! Cats! Cats! Cats!" chants filled State Farm Arena as UK Head Coach ...

Blunt-force honesty has been a trademark of Rick Pitino and Mark Pope's relationship dating back to the early 1990s when Pope was a blossoming recruit. It was Pitino ...

Both teams have underperformed this season, with Kentucky basketball falling from No. 9 to unranked. Mark Pope has to find a way to get the Kentucky offense in sync against a vulnerable St. John's ...

How did the new pope win over his colleagues and what does he bring to the role from his upbringing in Chicago and his work in Peru? Photo: Vatican Media/IPA via ZUMA Press The Second Vatican Council, ...

As December begins, we want to start looking forward to celebrating a joyful Christmas. Doing so is tough with wars still in Ukraine and the Middle East. The world situation is so bleak, some are ...

Pope Leo XIV visits the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, known as the Blue Mosque, during his first apostolic journey, in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 29, 2025. (OSV News/Kemal Aslan, Reuters) Pope Leo XIV’s first ...

A man who attacked Pope John Paul II in 1981 was escorted from the Turkish town of Iznik on Nov. 27 ahead of Pope Leo XIV's visit there, Turkish media reported. In May 1981, Turkish national Mehmet ...

For up-to-date news items about the first papal trip of Pope Leo. Pope Leo XIV lands in Ankara on Nov. 27 for his historic first papal journey to Turkey and Lebanon. (photo: Vatican Media) CNA Staff ...

Archbishop Roncalli also played an important humanitarian role in relation to other minority groups, particularly helping Jewish refugees from Poland flee their homeland during World War II. Statue of ...