Pope Leo XIV has promised to make the Catholic Church a balm for the world’s “dark nights”, as he celebrated his first mass as pontiff less than 24 hours after being elected. Sixty-nine-year ...

At the Mass for the election of a new pope, the dean of the College of Cardinals made “a strong call to maintain the unity of the Church” ahead of the conclave on Wednesday, urging the ...

and then I opened up the church so people could go in and take pictures.” Hall said he hopes the papal connection can help his efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings. Preservation ...

U.S. cardinals had largely been written off as papal contenders because of a widespread assumption that the global Church could not be run by a superpower pope. Pope Leo XIV conducts Mass in the ...

GRANBY, Mass. (WWLP) – A disruption in the non-emergency system for Westcomm Regional Dispatch impacted communities across Massachusetts Thursday afternoon. At around 1:50 p.m., Westcomm ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - The St. Joseph Parish Festival is a tradition of food, fellowship, and fun. St. Joseph Catholic Church will hold its 50th festival on Sunday, May 11 at 11 a.m. at The Brazos ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday in the Sistine Chapel ... dangers caused by a lack of faith and hoping the Catholic Church could be a beacon lighting the world's "dark nights".

In his advocacy of the poor, migrants and a more open church, many people see the new ... presided over his first Mass as leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics on Friday, pledging to align himself ...

Pope Leo XIV gave his first homily at a Mass on Friday, one day after he was selected by a conclave of cardinals at the Vatican to lead the Catholic Church. The first U.S. pope in history said he ...

He’s also, apparently, a fan of the beats, as demonstrated today by his purchase of Lowell, Mass.’s former Saint Jean Baptiste Church for the site of the upcoming Jack Kerouac Center.

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff to take up the highest seat in the Catholic Church, returned to the Sistine Chapel on Friday to deliver his first mass in an address to the more than 1.4 ...