VATICAN CITY (CNS) – With a huge and festive crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV led his first Sunday ...

Pope Leo XIV delivered his first Sunday blessing at St. Peter's Basilica. The new pontiff is now preparing to meet with the press on Monday for the first time since his election. ABC7 Chicago is now ...

The new pope echoed themes that Francis, his predecessor, regularly addressed, as he appeared in front of thousands of the ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, is scheduled to deliver his first such prayer on Sunday from the loggia where he first appeared in ...

Mother’s Day falls on May 11 this year in the United States and Canada as the Catholic tradition continues of honoring Mary, ...

His first outing since his election was to a sanctuary dedicated to the Madonna and is of particular significance to his ...

Many Catholics across Connecticut are hopeful that history’s first American pope, Leo XIV, can unify a divided world and carry on his predecessor's legacy of inclusiveness. “My first thought was that ...

Spaniard Luis Ventura, the executive-secretary of Brazil’s Indigenous Missionary Council, said he prays for the new pope to ...

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior cardinal deacon announced. The 69-year-old Chicago native is the first ...

A community of Carmelite nuns and a community of Carmelite hermits, both in Lake Elmo, have undertaken new construction projects in recent years.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, said in a post to X on Wednesday that he and the other North American cardinals will bring the "in ...

As the world reacted to Thursday’s historic news that an American, Robert Prevost, would lead the Roman Catholic Church as ...