Leo XIV assumes the papacy at an uncertain time for the church and its ... middle-of-the-road” candidate. On Thursday evening the crowds stretching from St. Peter’s Square to the Tiber River ...

The crowd at St. Peter’s Square was lively ... about the poor and “sees the world and the church from that perspective,” said the Rev. Peter Hughes, an Irish missionary priest who has ...

The new pope Leo XIV is scheduled to deliver his first Sunday blessing from the loggia where he first appeared in public ...

The Vatican said the pope was joined by the head of his Augustinian order, the Rev. Alejandro Moral Anton. The Mass occurred ...

For the first time ever, an American pope has been elected. Erika Glover sits down with Father Linsky with St. Peters to talk ...

After a series of closures by the Chicago Archdiocese, Christ Our Savior Church in South Holland has bragging rights as Pope ...

WORCESTER ― The former St. Peter-Marian High School building is back on the market, after plans to build a senior housing complex on the site evidently fell through. The former Catholic high ...

He has been announced as the 267th Pope and the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church. After being elected ... he also appeared on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica and said ...

Americans in St. Peter's Square were stunned and joyous when ... citizenship.Past popes have shaped the larger world beyond the Catholic Church, and it was not lost on some that Leo might too." ...

Police say they're searching for an "escaped patient" from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program in St. Peter who went missing early Friday morning. Beau-Jacob Edward Zimmer, 45, left the facility at ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass on Sunday near the tomb of St. Peter, hours before he delivered the traditional Sunday noon blessing from the loggia of St.