Chicago-native Cardinal Robert Prevost was announced as the new Pope on May 8, following Pope Francis’ death on April 21. The 69-year-old took the papal name Leo XIV. Since then, Catholics from ...

Wednesday evening, Pope Francis celebrated the first Canonization Mass ever held in the United States. Read his full remarks.

April 27, 2014 -- Pope Francis performed a double canonization ceremony for his two predecessors, Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, who on Sunday were declared saints before a crowd of some ...

Pope Francis has proclaimed two new saints: a Lutheran convert who hid Jews during World War II and the Polish founder of the first men's religious order dedicated to the immaculate conception.

The first pope, Saint Peter, was born in the region known as present-day Israel. Around the year 97, Pope Saint Evaristus, also from the Middle East, took his place as the human head of the Church.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — From the moment Pope Leo XIV emerged from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, church observers have sought comparisons between the new, U.S.-born pontiff and his ...

Pope Francis said he will canonize Carlo Acutis next April, setting the eagerly awaited date for the late teenager to become the Catholic Church’s first millennial and digital saint.

Acutis’ canonization was originally scheduled for April 27, but was postponed following the death of Pope Francis on April 21. Getty Images In 2013, a young Brazilian boy with a pancreatic ...

Pope Francis shakes hands with Sheik Ahmed al-Tayeb, grand imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar Mosque and University, during a document signing at an interreligious meeting at the Founder's Memorial in Abu ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Pope Francis was laid to rest Friday, but while he was head of the Catholic Church, he supported a Yazoo, Mississippi native for sainthood. Sister Thea Bowman, who served ...