Catholic Church

Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager who died in 2006 after battling leukemia, will be the first millennial to receive sainthood in Catholic Church history.

The Catholic Church’s first millennial-era saint Carlo Acutis will be canonized Sept. 7. That’s according to Pope Leo XIV who made the announcement during a meeting of cardinals on Friday. Acutis’ canonization was originally scheduled for April 27 but was postponed following the death of Pope Francis a week prior. Acutis was 15 when he died in northern Italy in...

He pleaded guilty in 2018 to abusing a 9-year-old boy at a Maine church in the 1990s and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope, became a rare case of an American citizen serving as a foreign head of state.

Four students from Los Angeles-area Catholic high schools will visit the Vatican to participate in a memorial service for Pope Francis while hoping to meet the new head of the Catholic Church, the Los Angeles Archdiocese confirmed Friday. The students are part of “Scholas,” a program that Pope Francis started when he was a bishop to bring young people from…

Four students from Los Angeles-area Catholic high schools will visit the Vatican for a week-long trip.

Vice President JD Vance met with the first American pope at the Vatican on Monday morning.

Pope Leo XIV was selected as the 267th pontiff after the death of Pope Francis April 21.

The graphic installation at Rate Field marks the location where the future pope cheered for Chicago in Game 1 of the 2005 World Series.

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological spectrum in Pope Leo XIV’s homeland, raising the question of whether he might be able to ease some of the deep divisions within its ranks.

Pope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of hostages and delivery of humanitarian aid.

Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters facing humanity.

The Filipino Catholic community was expected to celebrate a tradition of honoring the Virgin Mary in downtown Los Angeles.

John Prevost, one of the older brothers of Pope Leo XIV, said he briefly spoke with the pope to inform him they were headed to Rome.

The pope encouraged cardinals to make themselves “small,” continuing with Pope Francis’ teaching of staying humble. Enrique Chiabra reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Friday, May 9, 2025.

Before Robert Prevost became Pope Leo, the man described to be intelligent, humble and down to earth attended the Catholic Theological Union. Dinorah Perez reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 9, 2025.

The older brothers of Robert Prevost, whom the world now knows as Pope Leo XIV, said their little brother played priest when growing up. Michael Brownlee reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Friday, May 9, 2025.

Pope Leo’s childhood home in a Chicago suburb was recently listed for sale for under $250,000 — until Thursday, that is. It appears the listing for the small home in Dolton, Illinois, a suburb south of Chicago, was taken down just after the new pope was elected. The 750-square-foot home on East 141st Place had been put up for sale...

Students in Panorama City took a break from studies to watch a historic moment. Lauren Coronado reports for Today in LA on Friday May 9, 2025.

“I think people will be very impressed with him,” Villanova president Peter Donohue said of the new pope, who graduated from the university in 1977.