The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church. Vice President JD ...

The death of the trailblazing pope leaves the Catholic Church ... Pope John Paul II was treated there on nearly 10 occasions. Per Francis' wishes, his funeral is to be held in St. Peter's Square.

Only one pope has ever traveled to Chicago: In 1979, Pope John Paul’s three-hour ... travel to Rome. The church is cared for by the Community of Sant’Egidio, a Catholic lay association ...

Memorial Day is Monday, May 26. Here are some of the events planned to honor United States military personnel who have given ...

Peter Paul Rubens, the Flemish master whose brushstroke seemed ... the Genoese nobility and the Catholic Church. Rubens also spent several months in Spain in 1603, as the Duke of Mantua’s envoy to the ...

SS. Peter & Paul Byzantine Catholic Church in Beaver Meadows, welcomed their new pastor, the Rev. Vasyl Chepelskyy, his wife Mariia, daughter Viktoriya, and son Vitaliy on Cheesefare Sunday.

He acknowledges, in other words, that his encounter with Christ and his own ministry were the fruit of God’s prior love, which called him to a new life while he was still far from the Gospel and ...

Justin Perez and Landon Pinho each added two RBI for St. Peter’s Prep (18-6-1), which ... Jonah Cortez went 3-for-3 with a RBI for Hudson Catholic (2-16), while James Hennessey struck out ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a symbol of ...