Where Christians are "mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied" is where the church's "missionary outreach ...

ENDEAVOR Pope Leo XIV is the sixth pope I have known throughout my life. Thanks to social media, and to his being the first American Pope, he could well ...

Pope Leo XIV surprised the Augustinian community in Genazzano with a surprise visit to Marian shrine. He prayed and had lunch ...

Five Meath priests were among the crowds in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican yesterday when the white smoke started to billow ...

Lisa and Rich Solava and Denise Utter were friends with Robert Prevost long before he became pope — and have the selfies to ...

Last week was quite special for the estimated 1.2 billion Catholics around the world when white smoke billowed across St.

Born in the U.S., forged in Peru, chosen in Rome, Leo XIV will helm a church facing debt, division and decline ...

Still, it was an exciting moment for the Americans who were at the Vatican that day. Mariner says he and his wife were in a ...

As America, especially the United States and Chicago celebrated the elect of an American pope, the newly elected pontiff Leo ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich got off the plane from Rome in Chicago Monday night, but there is not time to rest just yet. Among the things now on his agenda is planning a local celebration in honor of a ...

On May 6, 2025, schoolchildren at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago held a mock ...

I watched the procession of the 133 Cardinals and their entourage from the Pauline Chapel into the Sistine Chapel. As they ...