COMMENTARY: It’s worth noting that the Pauline Chapel, one of three in the Apostolic Palace, is pictured in the Holy Father’s ...

Where Christians are "mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied" is where the church's "missionary outreach ...

Born in the U.S., forged in Peru, chosen in Rome, Leo XIV will helm a church facing debt, division and decline ...

As America, especially the United States and Chicago celebrated the elect of an American pope, the newly elected pontiff Leo ...

Last week was quite special for the estimated 1.2 billion Catholics around the world when white smoke billowed across St.

Each day, our special correspondents in Rome bring you the latest from the Vatican following the death of Pope Francis and ...

ENDEAVOR Pope Leo XIV is the sixth pope I have known throughout my life. Thanks to social media, and to his being the first American Pope, he could well ...

On May 6, 2025, schoolchildren at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago held a mock ...

Still, it was an exciting moment for the Americans who were at the Vatican that day. Mariner says he and his wife were in a ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich got off the plane from Rome in Chicago Monday night, but there is not time to rest just yet. Among the things now on his agenda is planning a local celebration in honor of a ...

Five Meath priests were among the crowds in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican yesterday when the white smoke started to billow ...