Outcry over proposed norms in the North Carolina diocese is rising to international attention, as it represents the first ...

At the Protestant Revolution, rood screens were demolished and altar rails became the boundary markers between the nave and the sanctuary. Catholic practice followed. That the altar rails also served ...

Pope Leo, the new head of the Catholic Church, takes responsibility not just for 1.4 billion souls, but also for a complex ...

Trump proposed in a statement on social media that Pope Leo XIV host delegations in Vatican City and play a mediating role in ...

"Even though we didn’t actually see the smoke or see the new pope, the feeling of being there, it was in everybody's heart.

Wake up, go to class, grab a panini, then go to work. The day in the life of students James Haupt, Caroline Pirtle, and George Small seemed nothing out of the ordinary, except “going to work ...

The Chicago-born pope’s gesture of gratitude in the Sistine Chapel came just hours after he was selected by the cardinals on the second day of the conclave. The footage shows Pope Leo XIV ...

The Vatican shared a livestream of the mass on ... as a choir sang hymns and a number of others stepped up to the altar to sing or give remarks. "We have all admired how Pope Francis, animated ...

according to a live video feed from the Vatican. After reciting together the oath in Latin, each of the 133 “Princes of the Church” advanced to the altar to take his personal vow, his hand on ...

Pope Francis's efforts to shake up the workings of the Church should be built on by the next pope, according to some - but his critics are less convinced ...

Former Cardinal Robert Prevost stunned his hometown on Thursday when the Vatican announced that the 69-year-old Chicago native had been chosen as the first US-born pontiff in the 2,000-year history of ...