In fact, the Wikimedia Foundation announced Dec. 2 that "Deaths in 2025" -- an entry that includes Pope Francis -- was their ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, appeared in St. Peter’s Square before 150,000 faithful and world leaders in Vatican City on May 18, 2025 Delegations representing countries from around the ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Pope Francis is back at the Vatican in Rome after a busy 10-day trip to Cuba and the United States. He left Philadelphia on Sunday night after participating in the World Meeting of ...

CHICAGO — Chicago’s Catholic community is joining those around the world mourning the loss of Pope Francis. Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, died Monday at the age of 88. People gathered at ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the popular Marian feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe by asking that Mary to intercede in the effort to ...

VATICAN CITY — Global dignitaries and faith leaders from around the world will gather in Vatican City on Sunday as Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV presides over his inauguration Mass, which will officially ...

T he years-long siege on the Traditional Latin Mass may be coming to an end under Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate. According to The Catholic Herald, the Catholic Bishops’ Conferenc ...

Pope Leo XIV held what has been dubbed the first “green” papal Mass on Wednesday, using a new set of prayers imploring care for God’s creation. The Mass, in the gardens of the Vatican’s new ecological ...

CHICAGO — Chicago’s Catholic community honored Pope Francis Wednesday at Holy Name Cathedral. Cardinal Blase Cupich led a memorial Mass starting at 10 a.m. It was open to the public. Fracis died on ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Pope Francis is scheduled to arrive in Washington D.C. Tuesday. He's there for Wednesday's canonization of Father Juniper Serra, the founder of the California missions. A few ...

The pope celebrated Mass with some 5,000 people, many foreign-born Catholics, in an intimate Istanbul arena on Nov. 29, his last full day in Turkey.