There will be many festive events on this day, and many people visit the statue of Saint Paul that stands in front of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City as part of the celebration.

Paul Etienne, has worked with the new pope and says the key in how Pope Leo XIV will lead is in the name he chose. "What Pope Leo is now signaling by the choice of his name is that the church’s ...

EL CENTRO—Mary Helen McCombs, Senior Warden of Saints Peter and Paul Episcopal Church, was unable to hide her joy in a recent interview. The church, founded in 1910, has welcomed its new Reverend ...

Pope Leo XIV pledged to align himself with “ordinary people” and against the rich and powerful as he presided over his first Mass as leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics on Friday, and called ...

SINGAPORE: The Catholic Church in Singapore on Friday (May 9) celebrated the election of Pope Leo XIV, who succeeds Pope Francis. Robert Francis Prevost is the first pope from the US. He was ...

Pope Leo XIV is the 267th head of the Catholic Church. He’s also a class of ‘77 alumnus of Villanova University, which is run by the Order of St. Augustine. Then-Cardinal Robert Prevost speaks ...

Pope Leo XIV has been elected as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, marking a historic moment as the first American ever to assume the papacy. Born Robert Francis Prevost, he now leads ...

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the ...

Geoff Bennett: For more on Pope Leo XIV and what he means for both the church and for the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, we turn now to two guests, both in Rome. Kim Daniels is the director of the ...

“He worked so hard to find help, that there was not only enough for one plant, but for two oxygen plants,” said Janinna Sesa, who met Prevost while she worked for the church’s Caritas ...

He prayed that his historic papacy can help the Catholic Church be a beacon illuminating "the dark nights of this world". Dressed in relatively simple white and gold vestments, the former Cardinal ...

“He worked so hard to find help, that there was not only enough for one plant, but for two oxygen plants,” said Janinna Sesa, who met Prevost while she worked for the church’s Caritas ...