The trip, planned over a year ago, was meant to be a visit to the holiest place of their Catholic faith. Vaskov described the ...

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Like most people, Msgr. Joseph Prior watched the election of Pope Leo XIV with great interest. He noted how the people in Rome represented the diversity of the universal Church, a theme reflected in ...

It’s not every day you can say you know the new pope,” Fr Paul Finnerty laughed on national television as the world welcomed Pope Leo XIV to St Peter’s balcony on Thursday evening. Fr Finnerty is a ...

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, said Friday that his election was both a cross and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass in Sistine Chapel.

The Catholic world is abuzz with the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American as the papacy. For many Catholics ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Bronzeville and raised in the south suburbs, will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

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A Boise sixth grader at Sacred Heart Catholic School randomly selected Cardinal Robert Prevost in a class assignment, correctly predicting the first American pope in history.

The views of the Catholic Church's first American-born pope are stirring anger among some in President Donald Trump's ...