VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Pope Leo XIV and his family have a long history on Chicago's South Side. Long before Robert Prevost was elected by his fellow Cardinals, he was a friend to a South Side family.

The Vatican announced the election of Pope Leo XIV shortly after white smoke blew from the roof of the Sistine Chapel on ...

Utah Catholics couldn’t hold back their excitement at news that, for the first time, the global faith of 1.4 billion will be ...

News of the first U.S. pope prompted plenty of celebration in Central Illinois, heightened by the fact that the Catholic ...

Americans gathered in St. Peter ... love our new Holy Father. Good things are happening for our Church,” Marcus said. Courtney Mares is a Rome Correspondent for Catholic News Agency.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals ... companion to St. Francis of Assisi, the late pope’s namesake. “Together, we must try to find out how to be a missionary church, a church that ...

The Orthodox and Catholic Churches have a united celebration in 2025, for the first time in eight years. Father John Basarab, pastor of Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church, celebrates ...

“Especially our Latinos drew a source of consolation of him being the Holy Father ... in Northeast Pennsylvania, the Catholic church has received them. St. Gabriel’s, which is part of ...

he exemplified this dedication by making daily phone calls to the Holy Family Church in Gaza - the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip. Father Gabriel Romanelli, parish priest of the 500-person ...