In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...

A Catholic mother ... took place at Ory’s home parish, St. Joan of Arc in LaPlace. “Regina Matrim, at its core, is just to highlight a woman from the archdiocese here in New Orleans who ...

Their hub was a now-shuttered Catholic parish and school in a dense metro area that reflected not only the rich cultural tapestry of the US Catholic Church but of America itself. A deep sense of ...

Despite losing 1,200 churches, America has gained 2.9 million Catholics since 2010, according to an NBC News analysis of data from the U.S. Religion Census.

After a series of closures by the Chicago Archdiocese, Christ Our Savior Church in South Holland has bragging rights as Pope ...

The church's owner hopes the papal link can help efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings on the Far South Side.

A map shows the areas of the U.S. where Catholicism is on the rise, with certain regions experiencing a much higher influx ...

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Yet he became the first hermit, living a solitary life of prayer and devotion to God, in the Archdiocese of ... cover a news event in a local parish, school or Catholic institution.