Image Women stood in silent protest over their inability to enter the priesthood at an earlier ordination at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in 1979.Credit...Chicago Sun-Times, via Chicago ...

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 ...

Retired Catholic Priest Thomas ... Cross Church in Mendota (1983-86), Epiphany in Normal (1986-88), USAF bases in Grand Forks, ND, and RAF Woodbridge in England (1990-91), St. John the Apostle ...

He took the name Leo XIV, following 13 other Leos who have contributed much to the life of the Church. His choice of name and his words at his first papal mass ... St. Peter the Apostle, Pius IX and ...

Monsignor William Scheyd, a longtime priest in the Bridgeport Diocese and a fire department chaplain in Norwalk and New ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic ... Church and world, as history’s first American pope offered a message of healing during an inaugural Mass ...

Pope Leo XIV officially opened his pontificate as history’s first American pope on Sunday, presiding over an inaugural Mass ... the Catholic Church. He prayed first at the tomb of St Peter ...

Mass times are 6:30 a.m ... Ashes will follow each Mass. St. Thomas More will have three services at 7 a.m., noon and 6 p.m. Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church (15615 Jefferson Highway.) ...

Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history’s first American pope offered a message of healing during an inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s ...

After a first ride in the popemobile through an estimated crowd of up to 200,000 in St Peter's Square ... 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church at an outdoor Mass. Well-wishers waved United ...

Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history's first American pope offered a message of healing during an inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square ...

it was the first Eastern Rite Catholic Church to be created," said Briquel-Chatonnet. According to tradition, the Syro-Malabar Church was founded in the year 52 by Saint Thomas the Apostle in ...