Pope Leo XIV led the Regina caeli prayer — often spoken during the time between Easter Sunday and Pentecost — in St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday, May 11. The pontiff, who was elected on May 8 after a ...

In 2024, there were roughly 35,000 nuns in the United States, an 80% decrease from 1965, when there were about 175,000.

Holy Virgin Mary, there is none like you among women born in the world. Daughter and handmaid of the heavenly Father, the almighty King, Mother of our most high Lord Jesus Christ, and Spouse of ...

Catholics celebrate after first-ever American elected by conclave - The faithful cheered in the Vatican square, waving flags ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa – A rare cross-country pilgrimage is passing through Iowa on Memorial Day weekend. The Archdiocese of Dubuque ...

Pope Leo XIV, when he was bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, offered a special prayer of consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary ...

Wearing white vestments, Leo processed into the Sistine Chapel and blessed the cardinals as he approached the altar and ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

But in naming himself Leo, the new pope could also have wanted to signal a strong line of continuity: Brother Leo was the 13th century friar who was a great companion to St. Francis of Assisi ...

FILE- Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing during his last Angelus noon prayer, from the window of his studio overlooking ...