ROME — Pope Leo XIV asked Sunday for prayers for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See, as he made his first ...

Interreligious leaders pray for Pope Francis’s health at the ... stressing “how important the pope is, not only for the Church, but also for the whole world.” Since Monday, a nightly rosary ...

In that moment, she had a simple thought: “They need prayers.” A friend of Heckl ... “We’re so removed from what happens with the universal church here,” she explained in a phone ...

But with the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, the only and most important thing parishioners have is prayer, he said. More than a dozen parishioners gathered inside the church on Monday ...

Often, the divides are held deep inside, though sometimes ... In early March, she led a prayer — in both Russian and in Ukrainian — in front of the church in support of Ukraine.

and he returned to St. Mary Major church 126 times. It was the first place he went after he was discharged from Gemelli Hospital in March, and he returned to pray there just days before he died on ...