visit USA TODAY's coverage for Friday, May 9. Pope Leo XIV marked his first full day as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church by celebrating Mass in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel ...

ROME — A new online course has been launched to help ... co-authored the 2022 book The Catholic Mass: Steps to Restore the Centrality of God in the Liturgy. A key theme that ran through that ...

A formal Mass to mark the inauguration ... the director of St. Matthew’s Cathedral. “Today is an extremely joyful day.” Leo's ascension to the top of the Catholic Church was a surprise ...

Centre Congregational Church will celebrate will celebrate Pentecost Sunday on June 8 with a 10 a.m. service in the sanctuary ...

Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, was born on September 14, 1955, in Chicago, Illinois. He was sent to Peru in 1985, where he began a transformative chapter of his life. Assigned to the ...

The choir broke into an Igbo hymn ... This was at a recent Mass at St. Clement Pope Church, one of the few Catholic churches in New York offering Mass in Igbo, a language spoken by an ethnic ...

St. Thomas Catholic School junior high choir director, Kathy Proulx ... have a basilica where the pope could come and preside over Mass. And the thought of that is absolutely overwhelming ...

Nellie "Nana" Montoya Nellie "Nana" Montoya was born July 31, 1932, to Antonio and Cleotilde Chavez Cordova, in La Joya, New Mexico. She attended Belen High School. Went on to St. Joseph's College ...

The Grand Rapids-based women's choir ... and Little Jazz Mass. A variety of instruments will be accompanying the choir. The concert will be Saturday, May 10 at St. Mary's Catholic Church, located ...

St. Claire’s Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul: Messages for the St. Vincent de Paul should be sent to St.

On Sunday morning, May 18, a Mass for the beginning of the pontificate ... sold and donated the proceeds to international missions; Today, Paul VI's tiara is kept at the National Shrine of the ...