Much of the majority immigrant congregation at St. Charles Borromeo saw Pope Francis as their spiritual champion.

There, Pope Francis paid respects at a cemetery near a former residential school for Indigenous children. He then delivered a long-sought apology for Catholic complicity in the 19th- and 20th-century ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop ...

When Dustin Pagan-Peterson and his husband found out Pope Francis had passed, the only thing they could do after confirming it online was hold each other’s hands across the breakfast table and cry.

Lopez, whose Amah Mutsun Tribal Band includes descendants of those who lived in the spheres of influence of two California missions, had written multiple times to Pope Francis, unsuccessfully ...

Vice President Vance, a Catholic himself who met with Pope Francis before his death ... Forecast shows where in California is at a greater risk of wildfires later this year Apartment sizes ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope, became a rare case of an American citizen serving as a foreign head of state.

He applied that life experience to his last role before becoming pope: helping the late Pope Francis find candidates for bishop around the globe, beyond the Church’s traditional recruiting areas ...