The face of Brother Juan of the Community of the Lamb went viral last week in a video recalling an emotion-laden moment with Pope Francis in Rome.

“Pope Francis was really like a warm hug from an uncle or something.” The Catholic Church has historically excluded women from meaningful roles in its synods — conventions typically reserved for ...

A lot. Because he’s the Pope, and I’m just another girl, and I’m like wow. This is amazing. "My mother-in-law was watching on TV, and she knew it was him [Eddie], because the camera angle didn’t get ...

With the election of Pope Leo XIV as the head of the Catholic church, all eyes turned to his family. The youngest son of ...

TERNI - "Hello Lorenzo, this is Pope Francis. Do not fear, do not give up Lorenzo, I pray for you. A hug, may the Lord bless ...

The Chicago-born pope’s gesture of gratitude in the Sistine Chapel came just hours after he was selected by the cardinals on the second day of the conclave. The footage shows Pope Leo XIV ...

Then Pope Benedict rekindled our reason ... So this gentle, soft-spoken, smiling, blessing, hugging, kissing, embracing shepherd goes to the Lord “whose mercy endures forever,” the God ...

The area where the pope grew up has changed dramatically in the decades since he left. In Dolton, the small suburb hugging Chicago where the Prevost family lived, 94 percent of residents were ...