When someone accepts election as pontiff, there undergoes a change in that individual, not only in life purpose in leading ...

Standing in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an ...

The papacy, an institution stretching back nearly two millennia, represents one of history's longest unbroken lines of ...

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It is common that upon the death of a Pope, comments arise recalling his pontificate—some positive, others not so much. But ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Like it does every year, St. Peter’s kicked off the 2025 prom season for the Staten Island high schools. Unlike in years past however, the school forewent its traditional ...

It was a few heartbeats after that, when the 69-year-old, Chicago-born pontiff, the 266th successor to the throne of St. Peter, looked down at his hand. In a split second, the gravity of all that ...

He offered a message of love and communion during an inaugural Mass in St Peter’s Square before an ... have been erected in a nearby park. Gregory and Susan Hudak, who lived for 40 years in ...

Pope Leo XIV officially opened his pontificate as history’s first American pope on Sunday, presiding over an inaugural Mass in St Peter’s Square before tens of thousands of people, presidents ...