There's yet to be confirmation from official church sources, including Hicks who, like Pope Leo XIV, hails from Chicago's ...

John Prevost reflects on the years after his brother left home, from his brother Robert's time in the minor seminary and ...

Multiple news reports indicated that Pope Leo XIV had chosen Bishop Ronald Hicks, 58, of the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois — ...

Bishop Ron Hicks from the Diocese of Joliet is in the running to replace Timothy Cardinal Dolan at the Archdiocese of New ...

Bishop Hicks has a diverse and impressive skillset. But how will his Midwestern sensibilities fare in the Big Apple?

The pontiff offers something rare: a pastor-leader urging the church to reclaim the dignity of every person — not as an ...

For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily ...

Reclaiming American Catholicism,' coming in at nearly 400 pages, is a comprehensive and meticulous synopsis of many of the ...

New recordings of church officials spurred the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, to file an updated ...

ROME — A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback ...

A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to ...

A Vatican commission looking into the idea of allowing women to be ordained as deacons says the Catholic Church cannot ordain ...