With all the headlines the church has been making, much of it pleasantly positive and even complimentary, especially ...

Along with the New Year Honours, the Birthday Honours are the most significant announcements of civilian and military gallantry awards. 27 individuals from Essex have been named on the list, ...

What is Pope Leo XIV's Wawa order? The Villanova alumnus shares his answer with an Augustinian priest from Delaware County.

From an altar boy growing up in a working class area of Chicago, Robert Prevost, 69, has worked his way through the ranks to become the first US pope to be elected in the 2,000-year history of the ...

The Rev. Richard J. McGrath was a longtime leader of Providence Catholic High School, run by the Augustinians, whose Midwest province, and ultimately the order worldwide, were led by now-Pope Leo XIV.

Prayers for a speedy conclave were answered when, on May 8, white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney to signal the election of a new pope. Robert Francis Prevost, who will now be known ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first US pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic religious order. Prevost, 69, who chose the name Pope Leo XIV, was ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first pope who belongs to the Order of Saint Augustine, whose principles, priests say, offer a window into what type of pontiff Leo may be. Augustinians follow spiritual ideals ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic religious order. Prevost, 69, who chose the name Pope Leo XIV, was formerly … ...

The new pope, Chicago area native Robert Prevost, has faced criticism for not doing more to encourage his religious order, the Augustinians, to embrace transparency over the decades-long sex abuse ...