On Saturday, the team Pope Leo XIV roots for, the White Sox, will host an outdoor Mass in his honor and in celebration of a ...

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

In June 2024, the head of the Vatican communications department, Paolo Ruffini, vigorously defended his office’s continued ...

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When white smoke billowed out from the stovepipe chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, most people were watching from their screens, but Bishop Robert Barron of the Winona-Rochester Diocese had a front row ...

The Vatican announced Wednesday the first appointment of a Chinese bishop under Leo XIV, signalling the new pope’s support ...

In June 2025, a series of photographs authentically showed Pope Leo XIV falling down stairs. In 2025, a set of photographs ...

A Mankato native who spent most of his journalism career covering the Vatican provided some dope on popes, his review of a ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope ... the only hope I had coming here was to see the inside of the Sistine Chapel," he said. "Seeing the pope was not scheduled ...

By then, Considine had become head of the U.S. bishops’ Latin America Bureau. He worked with the onetime Catholic priest and ...

COMMENTARY: Blessed Iuliu Hossu was characterized by Pope Leo XIV as a 'a man of faith who knows that the gates of evil will ...

On May 8, the day Pope Leo XIV was elected as our new Holy Father, he told the faithful, “Today is the day of the Prayer of ...