Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, waves to the crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after his election as pope May 8, 2025. The new pope was born in Chicago.

ON May 8, the second day of the 2025 conclave to elect a new pope after Pope Francis died at 88 on April 21, 133 cardinal ...

Leo XIII, was also known as "the Rosary Pope" for his unmatched 11 encyclical letters on Marian devotion. Aside from Leo XIII ...

In his homily to the College of Cardinals May 10, Pope Leo XIV said that he had chosen his name partly because just as Pope ...

Youtz passed peacefully at her home surrounded by her family on Friday, May 2, 2025, after a five year journey with ALS.

Born Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci in Carpineto Romano, Italy, Pope Leo XIII reigned from 1878 to 1903, making his term as head ...

The Thursday, May 8 election of Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost as the 267th Pontiff on the second day of the 2025 Conclave ...

The seagulls perched on the Sistine Chapel rooftop undoubtedly saw the white smoke first. But it didn't take long for the ...

From the St. Peter’s Basilica to his native Chicago to his diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, Catholic faithful around the world ...

Jittery excitement and hopeful prayers filled the classrooms of St. Michael Catholic School in Greenfield Thursday.

In one of his last public acts before he retires later this month, an emotional Archbishop J. Michael Miller spoke at Holy Rosary Cathedral filled with uniformed first responders, political officials, ...

A papal conclave blends the political and the spiritual, cardinals and theologians say. Here, in Catholic belief, is how the ...