In a historic first, 20 Chabad Rabbis from across the region convened this week on the island of St. Thomas for a landmark ...

Back in 2004, it was an eye-opening experience for Crestwood couple Michael and Beth Searcy to go on a mission trip to the ...

President Donald Trump launched a new commission on religious liberty on Thursday with some polarizing comments about church-state separation. Speaking at a Rose Garden ceremony, the president ...

Above, a pool of blue light from a stained-glass window illuminates a balcony where the St. Mary of the Assumption Church choir — including a young boy who would later become the first American ...

Donation Options Search Search Search St. Mary of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church in Riverdale is Pope Leo XIV’s old childhood church. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share The parish ...

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including a “loving care for the least and the rejected.” By Emma Bubola ...

Pope Leo XIV gave his first homily at a Mass on Friday, one day after he was selected by a conclave of cardinals at the Vatican to lead the Catholic Church. The first U.S. pope in history said he ...

A woman was shot and a man was stabbed during a funeral at a church in Harford when an argument between family members turned into a violent melee, according to police. Police said they received ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A woman was shot, and a man was stabbed during a funeral service Friday morning at a church in Hartford, according to police. Hartford Police Lt. Aaron Boisvert said ...

SINGAPORE: The Catholic Church in Singapore on Friday (May 9) celebrated the election of Pope Leo XIV, who succeeds Pope Francis. Robert Francis Prevost is the first pope from the US. He was ...

After a short return to the U.S. as an official of the Augustinian order in Illinois, he returned to Peru as a seminary professor to teach canon law, the legal structure of the Catholic Church.

CHICAGO — Pope Leo XIV was on Thursday announced as the Catholic church’s newest leader, guiding more than 1 billion faithfuls worldwide — and he started his religious journey on Chicago’s Far South ...