Bishop Dowd said it has been a while since the Church has had a pope taking the name of Leo, the last being Pope Leo XIII, ...

Bishop Thomas Dowd, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie welcomes the election of the new Holy Father, Pope Leo ...

In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica ... and to walk together with you as a united church, always trying to find peace, justice ...

Augustinians are part of the Mendicant Movement, which was characterized by a mixed or middle way among religious, in which a life of contemplation is combined with a life of apostolic ministry, and ...

Rev. Canon Michael Read, the rector of St. John the Baptist for the last 20 years and the rector of St. Lawrence Anglican Church in Brockville, recognized the contribution of key church participants ...

and a doctorate in Church law from the Pontifical College of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Prevost first went to Peru as a missionary in 1985, returning to the United States in 1999 to take up a ...

He is the first pope from the United States of America ... first Jesuit to lead the Catholic Church died at age 88 on April 21. Catholic school students at St. Aloysius Academy in Bryn Mawr ...

is the first pope from the United States, and the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. The 69-year-old from Chicago stepped into his role as the 267th pope on the balcony of St ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is the first Pope from the United States — and he appears ... title of spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church. A member of the 13th century Augustinian ...

(AP Photo/Christian Chavez) A sign outside Southwestern Public Health in St. Thomas ... trace their first case to an ...

On Thursday, Prevost ascended to become Pope Leo XIV — the first pontiff from the United ... in St. Peter’s Square. “Together, we must try to find out how to be a missionary church ...