ROME — Pope Leo XIV spoke publicly about his childhood in Chicago for the first time as pontiff Thursday, recalling that from ...

It was one of the first times Leo has spoken unscripted at length in public, responding to questions posed to him by the ...

After more than 50 years serving at St. Agnes Parish in Phoenix, the Carmelite priests are departing. They leave behind a ...

The Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, recently ordained 12 new Catholic priests in a joyful Mass at its cathedral.

A suicide bomber in Syria on Sunday detonated himself inside a church filled with people, state television and a war monitor ...

A former senior Catholic priest has admitted the repeated abuse of a boy more than 40 years ago. Thomas Millar preyed on the then-teenager who only felt able to bravely report his ordeal to first his ...

And so, my father taught me the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar and other prayers, including the Pater Noster — the Our Father — in Latin. He would nightly kneel with me before that crucifix ...

As the Chicago White Sox honor Pope Leo XIV with an outdoor Mass on Saturday, his 2005 World Series seat has become a pilgrimage site for the faithful.

Rashi records a dispute over who “them” refers to. In Hullin 49a, R. Akiva holds that, though the priests recite the verses, G-d will bless the people. The priests serve as conduits. R.

When Deacon Herrera was a boy sitting in St. Gertrude the Great Church, he said he would look up at the altar and ask his mother about the priest. “Mama, who is that guy on the altar?” he recalled.