For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

St. John Kanty Church in Buffalo closes its doors. Parishioners debate its future as emotions run high in this close-knit community.

When the Catholic Church canonizes someone who died recently ... It was Francis who finally declared John XXIII a saint in 2013, canonizing him the following year, on the same day he canonized ...

Workers on the roof were placing shingles when they saw smoke and called 911. Large flames and black smoke were later seen ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

BENSONHURST — St. DOMINIC CHURCH in Bensonhurst dedicated new statues of St. John XXIII and St. Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa) on May 4, replacing those destroyed by a vandal in June ...

VATICAN CITY - When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio emerged onto the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica after the conclave of March 2013, few outside his native Argentina knew who he was or what kind ...

The tradition of popes taking new names upon their election is one of the most recognizable customs in the Roman Catholic ...

Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless ...

The Pope John XXIII schedule also includes matchups vs. last season’s No.1 team, Bergen Catholic (9/20), No. 7 team St. Joseph Regional (10/18), No. 16 team Delbarton (10/4), and No. 22 team ...

an Agenda for the Catholic Church By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY ... would evoke a major figure of the 1960s. Pope John XXIII (1958 to 1963) was known as a gregarious, smiling man, often referred ...