Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

St. Athanasius wrote of Holy Mass, more than 1,600 years ago ... We do not display it in shadows; we approach it in reality." The First Eucharistic Prayer expresses this great truth, when ...

Weaver shared with the masses the reality that this a prophetic move of God to bring joy to the captives, along with healing ...

TULSA, Okla. — Holy Family Cathedral in downtown Tulsa held a Mass of Thanksgiving for Pope Leo XIV. "This evening we celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving and really celebration in honor of our ...

Holy Family Cathedral held a Mass of Thanksgiving downtown Friday night. Friday's mass was about thanking God for the new pope. Attendees say Pope Leo XIV has the character needed for the Catholic ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...

Holy Thursday: 6 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper Good Friday (No 6 p.m. Mass); Noon Chaplet of Seven Sorrows; 1 p.m. Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries); 1:45 p.m. Seven Last Words; 2:15 p.m. Stations ...

A MAN THAT NOW HAS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE PRAYING FOR HIM. THE PLACE WHERE WE MOST MENTION THE POPE’S NAME IS IN THE HOLY MASS, INCLUDING HERE AT CHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC CHURCH. THROUGH CHRIST OUR ...

On Friday, Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral on the Near North Side hosted a Mass of Thanksgiving for the election of Pope Leo XIV and there was a sense of joy among those who gathered before and ...