The pontiff will spend July 6 to 20 about an hour's drive south in Castel Gandolfo, a small hamlet on Lake Albano, the ...

Pope Leo, from Chicago, makes his first US pitch at White Sox Park Pope Leo, a native of Chicago's south side and a long-time fan of his beloved but beleaguered White Sox, sent a video message on ...

Pope Leo appealed on Saturday for authorities in Iran and Israel to act with "reason" after recent airstrikes and to pursue ...

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -A new assistant Catholic bishop was installed on Wednesday for Fuzhou, the capital ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -The canonisation of the first Catholic saint of the millennial generation, Carlo Acutis, will take ...

It is with a mixture of pride and sadness that I write to let you know about an important change for our news editor, Joshua McElwee. Joshua is moving on from NCR. In July, he will begin his new ...

Steve Inskeep talks to Joshua McElwee of the National Catholic Reporter about hearings at the Vatican during which an official took responsibility for not protecting children against abuse by priests.

Pope Francis has asked the Vatican to study whether the Catholic Church should classify “spiritual abuse” as a new crime in order to address cases where priests use purported mystical ...

Joshua McElwee of the National Catholic Reporter told NPR's Morning Edition that the exhortation has a very different tone than previous church pronouncements on these subjects. The focus on ...

Blaine Charlotte Hite of Chapin and Joshua William McElwee of Andrews were united in marriage Oct. 1 at Senate’s End in Columbia. The Rev. Dr. Kyle Derek Hite officiated the 6 o’clock ceremony.

Joshua J. McElwee was NCR's news editor from 2021-24. He was previously the publication's Vatican correspondent from 2014-21, where his dispatches from Rome and during papal trips abroad were ...

The last time the United States saw large scale student anti-war protests was in response to the Vietnam War in 1968 and today against the genocide in Gaza. KCRW discusses key moments in this week’s ...