SPRINGFIELD – Going into Saturday afternoon’s affair, Pope Francis Prep’s girls hockey team was looking for its second ...

NCR's 10 most-read news stories of 2025 include coverage of the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, massive aid cuts by the ...

This undated photograph shows a young Pope Francis, then Jorge Bergoglio, with his family. Back row, from left: his brother Alberto Horacio, Jorge himself, brother Oscar Adrian, and sister Marta ...

Chants of "We love Francis, yes we do!" rang as thousands jammed the White House Ellipse Wednesday for a glimpse of Pope Francis. And the faithful got everything they hoped for. The pope, in ...

(AP) - The world lost influential people in 2025, and some of their deaths had significant impacts. Pope Francis died in ...

Pope Leo XIV delivered a message of peace to 40,000 gathered in St. Peter's Square on New Year's Day, calling for disarmed ...

ROME -- ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV opened 2026 on Thursday with a plea for peace, singling out in particular countries ...

In his role as a missionary and prior general of the Augustinian order, the future pope traveled extensively, particularly in ...

Pope Leo XIV used the Vatican’s final general audience of 2025 on Wednesday to invite Catholics to look back on the past year ...

Days after the Chicago-born pontiff made his first Christmas message, congregants attending Mass at Holy Name Cathedral for ...