The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful. Pope Leo XIV closed the first ...

Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good ...

Louis Prevost, one of Pope Leo XIV’s two older brothers, lives 70 miles south of Tampa, in Port Charlotte.

The new pope Leo XIV is scheduled to deliver his first Sunday blessing from the loggia where he first appeared in public ...

Hail dropped across a wide swath of southeastern Minnesota and the St. Cloud area, falling in at least 21 communities, according to the National Weather Service. The largest recorded hail, 1.75 ...

During a Spartanburg County Council meeting Monday night, council members planned to discuss Sheriff Chuck Wright's compensation more than a month and a half into his leave of absence. READ MORE ...

PORT CHARLOTTE — When Pope Leo XIV said the Hail Mary in Italian, Latin and Spanish, Carla Velasquez knew she was going to instantly like him. Velasquez, the bookkeeper at St. Charles Borromeo ...

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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. expressed hope ...

A few of these storms will become strong to severe with a risk of quarter-sized to egg-sized hail and damaging winds,” NWS officials said. The storms are associated with a cold front that will ...

The cardinal-electors watched from balconies flanking the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica as Cardinal Dominique Mamberti declared in Latin ... to pray a Hail Mary with him “for ...