Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S.

The assigned reading for this Sunday is John 21:1-19. Jesus asks Peter three ... It was used for both Pope Francis and Pope St. John Paul II. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who preached last ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

(Bob Fila/Chicago Tribune) Pope John Paul II’s nearly 3-hour Mass in Grant Park supposedly attracted 500,000 to 1.5 million people. One Tribune reporter wondered if the park could host a crowd ...

Kim Daniels, Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life Director, Georgetown University: We are a church of 1.3 billion people ... Constitution Pope John Paul II issued in 1996.

The treatise was written by Benedict while he was still a cardinal under Pope John Paul II. John Paul endorsed ... including about 1.3 million who are Roman Catholics. Although 69% of Americans ...

Behind closed doors in the chapel, they will hold as many rounds of voting as prove necessary to select the 267th leader of the world's 1.4 billion ... In 1978, Pope John Paul II was elected ...

Mehmet Ali Ağca attempted to kill Pope John Paul II on this day in 1981 in St. Peter’s Square. Trump Suffers Blow Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Order Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar ...

The hymn implores the saints to help the cardinals find a successor to Pope Francis to lead the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic ... for the conclave, St. John Paul II wrote that in the Sistine ...