In 1848, 44 Trappist monks from France braved the wide ocean to reach the New World. Upon arriving in New Orleans, they booked a steamboat to Louisville, Kentucky, where they journeyed inland to a ...

The Basilica of St. Benedict in Norcia, Italy, reopened for worship this weekend after a four-year project to rebuild the 13th-century edifice leveled by an earthquake in 2016. Archbishop Renato ...

(AP / WJW) – Robert Prevost, elected as the first American pope in history on Thursday, decided to take the name Leo XIV. The name suggests he will continue the work of Pope Leo XIII, who led the ...

ROME, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital — Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first ...