ROME— Before ascending to the papacy, Pope Leo XVI forged a deep connection with the Philippines through a series of pastoral ...

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David found a deep connection between the Philippines and Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born Cardinal ...

The first documented sighting of a Filipino by a pope was at the Dominican church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome on ...

CHULUCANAS, Peru – Hector Camacho remembers Robert Prevost, set to be formally inaugurated as Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, as a young jeans-wearing missionary from Chicago with broken Spanish, landing in ...

I had my first taste of elections in the grade school classroom. We wrote out the ballots, the teacher read the names aloud, ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday, a day after his historic election as the first U.S.-born pope in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year history while ...

Tagle, who looks younger than his 67 years and likes to be called by his diminutive nickname “Chito”, has headed the Vatican ...

The names of Cristóbal López and Ángel Fernández Artime, both from Spain, and Pablo Virgilio David, from The Philippines, ...

With a Vatican official calling out “extra omnes” and the door to the Sistine Chapel shutting, the conclave to elect Pope ...

Black smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

IMUS, Philippines — Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle ... his nearly two decades in his hometown diocese — first as a priest, then later bishop — and why many former parishioners openly root ...