Robert Prevost’s Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south side suburbs, where he grew up playing “pretend priest” and ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled Thursday after cardinals elected the 267th pope to lead the Catholic ...

In his first days as pope, Leo XIV has struck many as an unassuming man of quiet warmth and deeply rooted identity. A visit ...

They abandoned their relationships, jobs, and lives for a total devotion to God and their fellow sisters. What can we learn from the nuns of today?

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke ...

White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV holds his first general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, issuing an appeal for Gaza, which he calls ...

He took it totally serious, it was not a game,” John Prevost said Thursday outside his home in New Lenox ... singing in the choir and serving as an altar boy. Marianne Angarola, 69, who was ...

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

The main altar at the National Shrine of the Divine ... written from a vision received by Polish nun St. Faustina Maria Kowalska in 1931. What exactly is Divine Mercy? The word divine means ...