Sunday, October 25, 1857 dawned unseasonably warm and humid over the city of Philadelphia. Up early that morning, Bishop John Nepomucene Neumann, pastoral leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of ...
In the 13th century, thousands in France were investigated, massacred, or even burned at the stake by the Catholic Church.
ope Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra ...
VATICAN CITY — Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United ...