Here are five key takeaways from Pew’s new analysis of the global religious landscape. Christianity is the world’s largest ...

In an unexpected move, the consistory also decided to move the date for Frassati’s canonization, which had been set for Aug.

A crucifix recovered from the ruins of World War II becomes a lasting symbol of faith, reverence and fatherly strength.

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As the Chicago White Sox honor Pope Leo XIV with an outdoor Mass on Saturday, his 2005 World Series seat has become a ...

Vevette Hill-Nwagbaraocha attends All Saints Catholic Church, also on the north side. She, too, is hopeful and excited about Pope Leo, regardless of how he identifies. But his lineage, she said, ...

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"What does the pope think about us being related? That's my question," one cousin said. "What does he think of us because ...

Acutis was 15 when he died in northern Italy in 2006, after a short bout with leukemia. He has become enormously popular ...

Santiago de Compostela is one of the major centres of Christianity in the world — but the city’s sense of spirituality goes ...

Officials in Ireland began work Monday to excavate the site of a former church-run home for unmarried women and their babies to identify the remains of around ...

Thousands went to the first American pope’s old haunt on the South Side to hear a message from the man they once knew as Robert Francis Prevost.