Old Time Gospel Missionary Baptist Church was organized on Aug. 19, 2001, at 209 West Broadway in Newport with approximately 15 original members. Rev. Doug Messer usually did the preaching and ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American to lead the Catholic Church ... deep missionary zeal. As a spiritual son of St. Augustine, a close collaborator and admirer of Pope Francis, and a Chicago-born ...

Pope Leo XIV’s first homily, delivered to his fellow cardinals in the Sistine Chapel, was a mission statement about missions. First, that the Roman Catholic Church must be humble and lead ...

More than a dozen members of a suburban Chicago church happened to get a surprisingly close look at the selection process for Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV. Read more here.

Cardinal Robert Prevost will be the first American Pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. The missionary spent much of his career ministering in Peru. Prevost, 69, took the name ...

Vatican City • At a Mass in the Sistine Chapel on Friday attended by the cardinals who had elected him their leader the day before, Pope Leo XIV spelled out his missionary vision for the church.

The election of Leo, the first pope born in the United States, represents a singular moment in the history of the American church. But as more details emerged about his youth in Chicago and his ...

So few expected Robert Prevost to walk out onto the balcony at the Vatican as the new head of the Catholic Church. And yet, on Thursday the Chicago-born cardinal-bishop, known by friends as “Bob ...

I’m still wrapping my head around the idea that one of us — a Catholic school kid from the Chicago area — now is the leader of the entire Catholic Church, presiding over there in the Vatican ...

Before ascending to lead the Roman Catholic Church, Leo spent his childhood in Chicago’s South ... “My vocation, like that of every Christian, is to be a missionary, to proclaim the Gospel ...

Pope Leo XIV laid out his missionary vision for the church. But first he told the cardinals that his leadership would continue to depend on them. “Through the ministry of Peter, you have called ...