Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...

On my birthday, I was already camera-ready. My family is very grateful to God for my healing. From left: husband Emil Buencamino, eldest Lia, and ...

The world is a noisy and chaotic place, and America is very loud right now. It dominates economies, headlines and ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

The Church is not a humble institution. It is a transnational empire, second only to the Chinese Communist Party in ...

These are extraordinary days for us- a new Archbishop, and now a new Pope- an American like us, (a Peruvian, too) yet no longer. Pope Leo is a missionary Augustinian, he belonged to the Church and to ...

In many of the Marian Apparitions all over the world, the Blessed Virgin Mary often emphasized the importance of praying the rosary.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Most Holy Rosary Church Pastor Father Fred Mannara said he was astounded to see the new Pope, Leo XIV, was from America. "I wasn't looking for an American Pope, but Leo XIV ...

In many Catholic families, there is a pious custom of reciting daily one part of the Rosary. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. There are, at present ...

Holy Thursday: 6 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper Good Friday (No 6 p.m. Mass); Noon Chaplet of Seven Sorrows; 1 p.m. Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries); 1:45 p.m. Seven Last Words; 2:15 p.m. Stations ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...