VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV offered a message of love and unity during an inaugural Mass on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV offered a message of love and unity during an inaugural Mass on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square before an estimated 200,000 pilgrims, presidents, patriarchs and ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV took his first popemobile ride through St. Peter’s Square ahead of his installation on Sunday, waving from the back of the open-back truck to the crowd waving ...

Thursday marked a historic day for the Catholic Church that particularly hit home for adherents around Chicago, with the election of area native Pope Leo XIV making him the first-ever American-born ...

Robert Francis Prevost was chosen on Thursday, May 8, to succeed Pope Francis as the head of the Catholic Church.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, was elected Thursday as the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church — the first pope from the United States.

Pope Francis will be buried later this evening, bringing down the curtain on his 12-year tenure as the leader of the Catholic Church ... St. Peter’s Square. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images ...

An official letter from the Vatican Dicastery places a hold on the order to merge SS. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church and St. James Catholic Church, which was issued by an official decree of the ...

Pope John Paul II, who served as ... raised on a stretcher and taken to St. Peter's Basilica in a slow procession led by the chamberlain of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Kevin Farrell.

Pope Francis, the Holy Father known for his support of the LGBTQ+ community, women in the church and immigration ... in an open casket. See photos of the crowd at St. Peter's Basilica.

A lightning strike may have been the cause of a steeple fire at a historic church in St. Paul on Thursday, the fire department said. The fire didn’t extend into the church in Frogtown and no ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — A suspected lightning strike set the steeple of a century-old church ablaze Thursday afternoon in St. Paul's Frogtown. According to the St. Paul Fire Department, crews were ...