The ceremony was the first local ordination in the era of Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to the papacy on May 8, succeeding ...

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

Four students from Los Angeles-area Catholic high schools will visit the Vatican to participate in a memorial service for Pope Francis while hoping to meet the new head of the Catholic Church, the Los ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...