The basilica is home to Francis’ favorite icon of the Virgin Mary ... Francis of the upcoming 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council and invited him, saying Francis “appeared ...

Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America ... “I pray the next pope will be a living icon of Christ,” he said, “someone whose love for the Lord is so sincere and visible that ...

Shrewsbury will host a rare musical event this month when centuries old chants – silenced for almost a millennia – will be ...

“They have no wine,” thus prompting his first miracle. It was in A.D. 431, at the Third Ecumenical Council, in Ephesus, that she was officially named Theotokos, Bearer of God. Since then no ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Mass on Friday after his historic election as the first North American ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

White smoke has risen above the Sistine Chapel, the signal that cardinals have chosen a new pope on the second day of the ...