Prevost, 69, who took the name Pope Leo XIV ... covers about 33,000 square miles of southern Virginia and includes 134 parishes and a total Catholic population of more than 246,000 according ...

RACINE — For The Rev. Fr. Juan Manuel Camacho, there's opportunity in the fact that Pope Leo XIV is from Chicago, along the same Great Lakes coastline as his parishioners just about an hour ...

“When I heard his name, she started screaming,” John said ... said Leo visited all 50 parishes in the Diocese multiple times. He was “very close to everyone” and that the priests ...

Together they looked at a large map of all of the parishes without a priest ... (CNS/Vatican Media) In the College of Cardinals, Lacroix's name has been frequently repeated as an outsider in ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City What’s in a name? A lot, it turns out. Matteo Bruni, a Vatican spokesman, told reporters on Thursday that Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost’s ...

The name a new pope chooses is often the first clue to his priorities. While early popes used their given names, the tradition of adopting a new one began in the 6th century and became widespread ...

DOCTOR NOONAN, THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE TIME. WE APPRECIATE IT. Leo is now tied for the fourth most common name chosen by popes, along with Clement. Only John, Gregory and Benedict have proven more ...

How much can we tell about a pope by the name he chooses? Sometimes a lot—as seems to have been the case with Pope Francis, whose simplicity and efforts at reform of the church did often echo ...

ROME (AP) — The first clue of the next pope’s direction will be the name the winner chooses. The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s ...

They unveiled Utah Mammoth as the franchise's permanent, full-time name Wednesday, with a profiled logo of the ice age creature featuring nods to the shape of the state, its mountain range and the ...

The new pope’s name, as well as his baptismal names, will be translated into Latin in the announcement but his former surname will remain in his native language. For example, when Pope Francis ...