Also, during the week the First Presidency has released an exterior rendering of a house of the Lord in Colorado’s second-largest city. The single-story Colorado Springs temple will be the fourth ...

FILE -- Pope John Paul II appears at a window of his rooms of the 10th floor ... first pope in 600 years to resign. They cheered him on as he reassured the faithful he wasn’t abandoning the ...

"Pope Leo XIII, with the historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum, addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution," Pope Leo XIV said. "Today, the Church offers to ...

Vatican City, Holy See—Leo XIV urged the Catholic Church to “desperately” counter a lack of faith in his first homily as pope Friday, a day after the modest cardinal largely unknown to the world ...

The pope prayed for peace in his first official remarks, but his words come against a backdrop of deadly wars, a long shadow of abuse within the church he now leads, and chaos and division at home ...

In his first Mass as head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV called on the faithful to “bear witness to our joyful faith in Jesus the Savior” in a world where “a lack of faith is often ...

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a ...

was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Prevost, who took the name Leo XIV, said “Peace be with you” in his first words as pope, offering a ...

VATICAN CITY: Robert Prevost, the choice of the world's Catholic cardinals to serve as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Church, is the first pope from the United States and a relative unknown on ...