After a lengthy and tangled dispute over ownership of one of South Florida’s oldest Christian Orthodox churches, its long-time leadership has lost a pivotal legal battle — and the keys to the ...

The bell was cast at the Royal Eijsbouts foundry in the Netherlands using fragments of artillery shells and other weapons ...

Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian ...

Pope Leo XIV has vowed to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace in the world, as he presided over his inaugural mass in St Peter’s Square before an estimated 150,000 ...

Pope Leo XIV officially opened his pontificate as history’s first American pope on Sunday, presiding over an inaugural Mass in St ... Church. He prayed first at the tomb of St Peter, considered ...

Leo XIV, the first ever American pope, condemned the exploitation of the poor and called for unity in the church during his inaugural Mass in St. Peter ... was of Paul VI in 1963.

Kalen Hill, a pilgrim from the US, got to St Peter’s soon after the gates opened on Sunday and said he never expected an American would lead the 1.4-billion strong church. “I would say all the ...

The bells of St. Peter ... Church’s social doctrine and the search for truth. It’s not known if he’ll use his installation homily as a mission statement as some of his predecessors did. In his Oct. 22 ...

which has an image of St. Peter on the outside band, with “Leo XIV” and the pope’s coat of arms engraved on the inside. All bishops wear rings to show their bond to the local church they ...

Pope Leo's first mass as pontiff got underway with the veneration of the tomb of Saint Peter Man walked 250,000 steps in a week to see what it would do to his body HMS Dragon destroys supersonic ...