MISSOULA, Mont. — Vice President JD Vance was planning to attend mass at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Missoula on Sunday, Father Craig Hightower confirmed with NBC Montana. Secret ...

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Varia Alston, a 21-year-old junior at McDaniel College, became the first young adult to receive the Unsung Black Catholic Woman Award from Baltimore’s Historic St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church.

Funeral services will be held 10 a.m., Monday, May 19, 2025 at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Poseyville, Indiana with burial to follow in the church cemetery.

Teresa Thompson is a member of Catholic Lesbians at the Church of St. Francis Xavier in New York. Catholic Lesbians was founded in 1995 and has over 300 members. Thompson, who grew up Catholic ...

More than 100,000 mourners filed into St. Peter's Basilica on Friday to pay their respects to Pope Francis, viewing his open coffin in the final visiting hours ahead of his funeral on Saturday.

Pope Francis’ visit to Japan in 2019 marked the first time a pontiff had set foot in the country in nearly four decades, since John Paul II’s brief trip in 1981. During this historic trip, Francis ...

Pope Francis, whose warm, humble, no-nonsense manner galvanized the Roman Catholic Church and drew widespread admiration from outsiders, has died. Pope Francis, beloved for his humility and ...

From sadness for his death to joy that it happened on Catholic’s holiest weekend to hope and uncertainty of what's to come, there are a myriad of emotions at the passing of Pope Francis.

Father Craig Hightower at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Missoula says the passing of Pope Francis is especially impactful because he was the first Jesuit pope.

Pope Francis, who died Monday at 88, was the first pope of the Catholic Church from the Americas, and the first Jesuit pope. What to know about the Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits Chad Murphy ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, passed away early Monday, according to the Vatican. He was 88.