Pope Leo XIV persuaded the Arizona clergyman to return from his retirement as urgent appointments were being made earlier this year.

The closing Mass will be at Los Angeles’ Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on June 22, the Solemnity of Corpus Christi.

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, has vowed to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace ...

Although never explicated in detail, the Catholic Church holds as dogma that Mary was and is Virgin before, in and after Christ's birth. It stresses thus the radical novelty of the Incarnation and ...