Filmore denied the denomination’s request to dismiss two lawsuits against the conference, one by the Westview Heights congregation and one by Daleville First Methodist Church. On May 2 ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Members of the First Missionary Baptist Church in Gulfport had a lot to celebrate this morning. The annual Baccalaureate Service fell on Mother’s Day. “I am super ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...

Pope Leo has said he hopes his papacy can help the Catholic Church be a beacon illuminating the "the dark nights of this world" - as he led his first mass since being elected pontiff. Robert ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church ...

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Pope Leo XIV gave his first homily at a Mass on Friday, one day after he was selected by a conclave of cardinals at the Vatican to lead the Catholic Church. The first U.S. pope in history said he ...

Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old born in Chicago who spent decades serving in Peru, would become Pope Leo XIV, the first American to ascend to the papacy in the church’s 2,000-year history.