ROME (AP) — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the ...

Fr Bett was shot dead by assailants shortly after leading a sermon for a Small Christian Community in the remote village of Kabartile, near Tot in Elgeyo Marakwet County.

Before the Reformation, there was not a Catholic Church in the Roman Catholic sense we think of today. It was just the church ...

Grimaldi) More than 250,000 people gathered in St. Peter's Square and Vatican City today (April 26) to pay tribute to Pope Francis, the charismatic leader of the Catholic Church who electrified ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...

Thousands cheered in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday when white ... Before ascending to lead the Roman Catholic Church, Leo spent his childhood in Chicago’s South Side, where his family was ...

In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica ... one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. Earlier this year, Francis elevated ...

Cardinals of the Catholic Church are locked in the Sistine Chapel ... from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. While he may be relatively unknown to most, the cardinal, who is described ...

In terms of important days in the history of the U.S. Catholic church, “this is number one. Zsofia and Miklos Biro had just wandered into St. Peter’s ... Pope John Paul I accepted the honor ...