Holy Land USA once brought 40,000 people a year to Waterbury, Conn. Locals hope to return it to its former glory.

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...

Cardinal Robert F. Prevost took the name Pope Leo XIV – an apparent nod to Pope Leo XIII, who championed the rights of ...

Catholics from far and wide are coming together this week to be part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage as it travels ...

Robert Prevost, an missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year ...

Pope Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic ... priests made the sign of the cross and nuns wept as the crowd ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church ... In the context of the Catholic Church, the inverted cross is a reference to the crucifixion of Saint Peter, who ...

White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled Thursday after cardinals elected the 267th pope to lead the Catholic Church on the ...

The crowd in St. Peter’s Square erupted in cheers, priests made the sign of the cross and nuns wept as the ... said Priscilla Parlante, a Roman. Pedro Deget, 22, a finance student from Argentina ...

Pope Leo XIV marked his first full day as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic ... to the National Catholic Reporter. "You have called me to carry the cross and to be blessed with ...