Pope Leo XIV on Thursday announced a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York, tapping Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet, Illinois to lead one of the nation’s largest and most influential ...

Pope Leo XIV in front of a stature of St. Mary in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, on Jan. 1, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen “We don’t actually know what Pope Leo is yet,” my friend ...

Every portrait begins with a clear vision, and this Leo Rojas drawing is built through a layered pastel and charcoal process that focuses on expression, texture, and realism. The foundation starts ...

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Leo said faithful family life can make homes ‘a light of hope for the places in which we live; a school of love and an instrument of salvation in God’s hands.’ Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered in ...

STOCKBRIDGE — Paradoxically, Stockbridge’s Indian burial ground signifies the presence of an absence. This sacred knoll overlooks the Great Meadow along the Housatonic River, once the site of a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV during his first Christmas Day message on Thursday urged the faithful to shed indifference in the face of those who have lost everything, such as in Gaza, those who ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday condemned the "rubble and open wounds" left behind by wars, singling out the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza as he conducted his first Christmas homily. "Fragile is the ...

Pope Leo XIV made an appeal for “one full day of peace throughout the world” in a Christmas address outside Castel Gandolfo in Rome — and criticized Russia for refusing a holiday cease-fire. “I once ...

Pope Leo XIV greets visitors and pilgrims from the popemobile before his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 1, 2025. Credit: CNS/Pablo Esparza At a time when so much ...

SEATTLE — Leo George Allard, a Navy first gunner’s mate who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and later became a familiar face at Pacific Northwest veterans’ events, died Nov. 7, 2025. He was 103.