Pope Leo XIV warned against the risk of “falling into a rut, a routine, a tendency to follow the same old pastoral plans ...

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, will ordain five new priests for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of ...

Vienna residents Ed and Arlene Borkowski were in St. Peter’s Square when Pope Leo XIV appeared after being elected on May 9. (Photo provided by Ed Borkowski) But we were committed to staying.

The day will end with worship services at the Cathedral of St. Raphael in Dubuque, the newly renovated mother church for the archdiocese. Saturday, May 24, the rural parishes of the archdiocese will ...

Meet the new pope. Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago, has been elected to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, more than two weeks after the death of Pope Francis.The ...

And Pope Francis, like 259 of the 265 popes who came before him, was elevated from the College of Cardinals to become the head of the Roman Catholic Church in 2013.

Pope Leo XIV - the name US-born Robert Prevost has taken - greeted worshippers on the balcony of the Vatican not long after that smoke had disappeared into the clear blue sky above St Peter's Square.

The belief is that the Holy Spirit will move the conclave to find the worthy successor to St Peter. There are already a number of well-known cardinals whose names have been informally put forward to ...

Hundreds of cardinals attended mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, to mark the end of a nine-day mourning period for Pope Francis. Latest U.S.

The cardinals who might become the next head of the Catholic Church ... The 80-year-old Archbishop emeritus of Vienna has just retired ... and would be a longshot for the throne of St Peter ...