VATICAN CITY—As tens of thousands of Catholics waited in hourslong lines to pay their respects to Pope Francis in St. Peter’s ... What direction should the Catholic Church take under the ...

Friday night in the TAPPS Division II area round, St. Joseph exploded for a 15-2 victory after five innings against Kelly Catholic. “With our offense, we know that at any given time we can open ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Hundreds of people packed into St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Jacksonville on Thursday for a memorial mass for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis. The church holds ...

blessing at the end of the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Comastri in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sunday, April 20, 2025.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Pope Francis, the 266th pontiff ...

The last two popes have been inaugurated in St. Peter’s Square. Why does it matter who becomes pope? The election of a pope is a deeply consequential decision for the Catholic Church ...

Languages: English The Catholic Church is preparing to select a new leader ... including Christmas and Easter Mass at St. Peter's Basilica, and delivers weekly blessings such as the Angelus ...

Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican confirmed to the public on Monday, capping the end of a tenure seen by some as one of the more progressive in the Roman Catholic Church.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an Argentinian son of Italian immigrants who became Pope Francis, turned out to be a consistently surprising pontiff who forced his Roman Catholic Church to look beyond its ...

Pope Francis sought to make the church more welcoming ... to recognize one another’s rights and protect vulnerable Catholic minorities. But all of the progress Francis sought to make in his ...

Inherited a deeply divided Church after Benedict ... Francis dismissed Bishop Joseph E. Strickland of Tyler, Texas, another of his fiercest critics among U.S. Catholic conservatives, after ...

His last act as head of the Catholic Church was to appear on Easter Sunday on the balcony of St Peter's Square, waving at thousands of worshippers after weeks in hospital with double pneumonia.

Warren, Pa., and Ghana in West Africa are separated by over 5,000 miles. But the two cultures came together Wednesday at St. Joseph Catholic School, where the Saakumu Dance Troupe brought the vibrant ...