St. Francis Xavier is another important namesake. One of the 16th century founders of the Jesuit order, Francis Xavier was a legendary missionary who spread the faith as far as India and Japan ...

Pope Francis is being mourned by Catholics around the world following the Vatican's announcement of his death. Timothy Cardinal Dolan presided over a special mass in the pope's honor Monday at St ...

Pope Francis formally signed off on allowing Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples in December 2023. But decades before the pope’s historic announcement, a New York City church has embraced ...

Vatican officials said Francis died after a cerebral stroke. He was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 in Buenos Aires and became the 266th pope in 2013. During an Easter Monday mass at St ...

Today at noon, the beautiful St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue and 50th Street will host a public mass in honor of the late Pope Francis, who passed away yesterday at the age of 88.

“Believe me, I could preach longer,” Dolan said Tuesday during a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. “But Pope Francis always complained ... see his struggle.” NYC crypto trader accused ...

Dolan gave a heartfelt tribute to Pope Francis following the reading of the Gospel at Easter Monday's morning Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, referencing the Easter story of when ...

In September 2015, Pope Francis visited New York City for the first and last time before his death, holding services at the 9/11 memorial, St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Madison Square Garden.