St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 806 13th Street Altoona, will host Blair County’s Juneteenth Jubilee at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 21 ...

Officials in Ireland are starting work to excavate the site of a former church-run home for unmarried women and their babies to identify the remains of some 800 infants and young children who died ...

Pope Leo XIV criticized the surge of nationalist political movements in the world as he prayed Sunday for reconciliation and dialogue — a message in line with his pledges to make the Catholic Church a ...

Pope Leo XIV arrived at his inaugural mass in a white vehicle, called for church unity in his sermon, and later prayed for people suffering from war and those marginalized.

The Chicago native, born Robert Francis Prevost, celebrated Mass at the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican on Friday, May 9. It was the 69-year-old's first service as the head of the Catholic Church, ...

Da Cunha said he would celebrate a Mass in honor of Leo XIV at the cathedral on Friday, May 16, at noon. All priests, deacons, religious, and laity of the Diocese will be invited to participate.

The Rev. Christopher Peschel, pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in New Bedford, said he never thought there would be a Pope from the United States in his lifetime. Leo is the first American ...

He was administrator for St. Hedwig Church and Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in New Bedford, Mass., before returning to Virginia in 2004. He founded the Don Bosco Center in Manassas and has assisted at ...

TULSA, Okla. — Catholic churches across eastern Oklahoma gathered together to hold Mass and pray for the College of Cardinals ahead of the Papal Conclave that begins on Wednesday.

TULSA, Okla. — Catholic churches across eastern Oklahoma gathered together to hold Mass and pray for the College of Cardinals ahead of the Papal Conclave that begins on Wednesday. "It was a Mass ...

The Reverend Alexander Ibe, parish priest at Holy Cross Catholic Church and St. Philip & St. James Church, in Bedford, said a "moment of mourning" had been triggered.