JD Vance has climbed to his current position as former President Donald Trump’s running mate, in part, by selling himself as a hillbilly, calling on his Appalachian background to bolster his ...

The message signaled a continuation of one of the priorities of his predecessor, Francis. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City Pope Leo XIV placed the poor at the core of the Christian ...

(RNS) — In Scripture and in the history of the church, the poor are where we encounter God, the pope writes in his 'Dilexi Te.' (RNS) — Jesus tells us in the Gospel of Matthew, “the poor will always ...