Rodriguez was born in the Dominican Republic and ordained to the priesthood in 2004, in the capital, Santo Domingo. He led the Our Lady of Sorrows parish in the mostly Latino Corona neighborhood of Queens when more than 100 of its parishioners died from COVID-19.

The Trump administration's new National Security Strategy is at odds with church teaching and Pope Leo's priorities on the transatlantic alliance, climate change, immigration, arms production, nuclear weapons and more.

More than two-thirds of American Catholic voters have a favorable opinion of Pope Leo XIV, a new EWTN News and RealClear Opinion Research poll reveals.

WASHINGTON (WPVI) -- Pope Francis arrived Tuesday on the first visit of his life to the United States, bringing his "church of the poor" to the world's wealthiest superpower and a country polarized over issues closest to his heart: immigration, social ...