Our own “Leo the great” is a permanent reminder of the great pope after whom he is named. The next pope among those few, those happy few, personal favorites would be St. Pius V. Elected pope ...

Fye, Anne Marie Amacher and Lindsay Steele The Catholic Messenger (Photo gallery at end of article) Jesus, present ...Read ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

The Mass will we held at St. Augustine Cathedral downtown. The bells at the Catherdral also are set to ring 88 times today, one time for each year the pope lived, Rev. Gerald Kicanas said in a ...

When she got a text saying Prevost had been elected pope, she couldn't believe it ... The kids on the street "played Mass," Boblink said, using props to represent the hosts.