Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, signalling he is continuing one of Pope Francis’ most controversial ...

Joan M. Dennis, age 95, of Fall River, Massachusetts passed away on May 8, 2025, ... May 14, 2025, at 10:00 AM at Holy Name Church, Hanover Street, Fall River.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, has been elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year ...

Local Catholic faith leaders greeted with enthusiasm the election of the first pope from the United States — and from Illinois.

How to watch Pope Leo XIV’s first mass. Leo's first Latin Mass will be broadcast live on Vatican News's YouTube channel. Leo's debut wardrobe was different than Francis'. Here's what changed.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Every year on the second Sunday of Easter, Catholics are called to confess, take part in holy communion, and pray at the ‘Chapel of the Divine Mercy’. Saint ...

Every year on the second Sunday of Easter, Catholics are called to confess, take part in holy communion, and prayat the ‘Chapel of the Divine Mercy’.

York City Police have accused a man of polluting holy water with urine at Saint Patrick Catholic Church earlier this month, according to court records. Jesse John Sokoll, 50, of no fixed address ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Legislative action has already started for the next Illinois General Assembly after Wednesday’s inauguration celebrations that included lots of oohs and ahhs at the newly ...

Rev. Robert Gifford Gilmour, C.S.C., 83, passed away on Saturday, September 7, 2024 at Holy Cross house in Notre Dame, Ind. following an extended illness. Fr. Gilmour was born in New Bedford, Mass ...