When Catholics heard on May 8 the new pope had chosen the name Leo XIV, the thoughts of many turned immediately to Leo XIII, ...

The late Pope Francis opened the way for women in the Roman Catholic Church to serve as readers and altar servers, and to ...

And he took the name of Leo XIII, the pope whose teachings in the late 19th century helped establish modern ... times it is church practices like allowing women and girls as altar servers and ...

A historic Massachusetts church where Jack Kerouac once served as an altar boy — and where his ... Planners envision the center as a modern sanctuary for artists and creatives — a space ...

That Leo softened the church’s confrontational stance toward modernity, especially science and politics and laid the foundation for modern Catholic ... They approach the altar one by one and ...

That Leo softened the church’s confrontational stance toward modernity, especially science and politics and laid the foundation for modern Catholic ... They approach the altar one by one and ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, an 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 States in ...

In making love, the husband and wife are saying to one another in "body language" what they said to each other at the altar on their ... of marriage." - The Church in the Modern World, Vatican ...

Leo XIII, was also known as “the Rosary Pope” for his unmatched 11 encyclical letters on Marian devotion. Aside from Leo XIII ...