Pope Leo XIV's election marks the second straight time the cardinals have selected someone from the Americas, as well as a ...

Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass and ...

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential ...

Preaching in the Sistine Chapel on May 9 to the cardinals who elected him, the first pope born in the United States opened ...

Here’s what we know so far about Pope Leo’s inauguration Mass. The inauguration Mass is due to take place on Sunday, May 18, ...

We have heard of the Three Wise Men who went to see the Christchild in Bethlehem but according to a 19th century story by Henry van Dyke there was a fourth writes MARGUERITE THEOPHILIn the mountains o ...

In Bethlehem cooking and eating are always about relationships, and it is this world of human connections that Kattan, ...

Pope Francis blessed an effort to transform the vehicle he used when he visited the West Bank in 2014 into a mobile health ...

The Bible says a lot about Jesus Christ, but the book never explicitly says when the Son of God was born. Though many ...

If Warnock wants to establish a precedent of comparing contemporary people to biblical figures, what biblical figures were ...

Crampsie Smith is a Summit Hill, Carbon County, native — the youngest of seven siblings born to a working-class Irish family — who has lived in Bethlehem for around 30 years. She was appointed ...