Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei ...

Starting July 1, the Catholic churches that serve Rome and Lee Center will merge into a single parish. Church leaders said ...

Remembering Pope Francis, the Catholic Church leader who broke with tradition 10:43. Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged ...

The Deacon of St. Mary’s church was nearly moved to tears talking about his personal connection to Pope Leo the 14th.

The church's owner hopes the papal link can help efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings on the Far South Side.

Afterward, the Roa family headed back to their neighborhood near Rome’s ... the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Tuesday.Credit...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times The church where Pope ...

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born ...

a special time for grace and forgiveness observed every 25 years in the Catholic Church. Nearly 200 worshippers from the Archdiocese of New York traveled to Rome this week, in part, to celebrate ...

From priests on pogo sticks celebrating in St. Peter’s Square to the crowd outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, the ...

By Emma Bubola Reporting from Vatican City In his first formal address to Roman Catholic cardinals, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday said he would continue the work of Pope Francis in steering the church ...

Pope Francis, the charismatic and conciliatory Argentinian who moved to liberalize the Roman Catholic Church, dramatically reorienting the papacy’s posture toward homosexuality and modestly ...