The Catholics surrounding Trump’s second term are best represented by his vice president, JD Vance, who converted to Catholicism and embraced family-oriented and conservative policies, echoing a general trend of young U.S. Catholic men shifting rightward.

The Argentine pope has always been critical of the just-inaugurated U.S. president's immigration policy. However, the world's smallest state continues to maintain a pragmatic diplomacy with the United States.

The Holy Father expressed hope that under Trump’s leadership, the American people would “prosper and always strive to build a more just society.”

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Donald Trump might not be president yet, but world leaders have been preparing for his second term, including the head of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, Pope Francis.

Melania Trump moved from a young Slovenian woman who relocated to the US to build her modelling career and rose through the ranks to become a First Lady.

The comments provided the latest indication of a potential renewal of friction between the Vatican and the next Trump White House.

Vásquez was most recently selected by Francis to oversee the Diocese of Tyler, also in Texas, after he dismissed its former bishop, Joseph Strickland, who had openly accused the pope of being a heretic and called into question the validity of his leadership.

A coalition of advocacy groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Jan. 20 challenging President Donald Trump's Day 1 executive order seeking to change the interpretation of the 14th Amendment,

President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders including on immigration, birthright citizenship and climate.

Among the first acts of his second term, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders including on immigration, birthright citizenship and climate. Some Catholic organizations expressed concern about the scope of his orders and their potential impact on migrants.