A résumé of deep religious education, frontline pastoral experience, parish management and Vatican governance — along with a ...

The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New Orleans, from a famous Voodoo priestess to the self-proclaimed inventor of ...

Phil Shank cherishes his unique memorabilia stemming from a chance encounter with McGraw more than 20 years ago. For Father Victor Eschbach, it’s a reminder of his special bond with the late pitcher.

But both wound up attending St. Augustine Catholic Seminary boarding school in Michigan, studying at Villanova University in Philadelphia ... the old St. Mary of the Assumption church.

Donation Options Search Search Search St. Mary of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church in Riverdale is Pope Leo XIV’s old childhood church. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share The parish ...

“I just wanted to come see his old haunts. He’s very real, having come from Chicago and ministered at ground zero,” said Veld, gesturing to the now-closed St. Mary of the Assumption church.

CHICAGO (Reuters) -The old parish church ... and the diminishing Catholic presence in America in general," said Father Michael Pfleger, a priest at St. Sabina Catholic Church on Chicago’s ...

VATICAN CITY – Francis’s 69-year-old successor is the first U.S.-born pope in the 2,000-year history of the Roman Catholic Church, which has grown to 1.4 billion strong. There was cheer in St ...

Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica ...

The 69-year-old ... from Philadelphia’s Villanova University, an Augustinian institution, with a degree in mathematics. After receiving a masters degree in divinity from Chicago’s Catholic ...

walking through St Peter’s Square with her parents. The 41-year-old Brazilian, who works with the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Rome, said Pope Francis, who died last month ...