St. Francis Episcopal Church, located on River Road in the heart of Potomac, welcomed a new rector for the first time in 27 years. The Rev. Mark Michael is a native of Clear Spring, Md., ...

Roxane Pratten and Betsy Fitter, right, of upstate New York wander past Marian Hall in April. The former sanitarium was run ...

The mesmerising curves of the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Pampulha are a Niemeyer hallmark. Its completion in 1943 was accompanied by an interior mural by Candido Portinari, while the site ...

Even more significant than these "firsts," I believe, is a "second": Leo follows in Pope Francis' footsteps as a priest shaped by the Latin American church ... famously St. Oscar Romero, whom ...

Even more significant than these “firsts,” I believe, is a “second”: Leo follows in Pope Francis’ footsteps as a priest shaped by the Latin American church. The new pontiff served the ...

NEWARK − The Rev. David Sizemore, pastor at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church for eight years, told parishioners Sunday in a tear-filled homily he will leave the parish to become pastor at ...

Packs of pilgrims chant and sing as they carry large, wooden crosses on the uneven cobblestones toward St. Peter ... deportations.” Francis also tried to make the church more representative ...

In his own house, the new pope will grapple with the church’s budget deficit and fallout from its decadeslong sex abuse scandal, which Francis ... the H block-shaped St. Martha House, built ...

VATICAN CITY — One of Pope Francis’ enduring legacies was that he greatly expanded the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, naming “princes of the church” from faraway ...

Hundreds of people queued to visit the tomb of the late Pope Francis at the St. Mary Major church in Rome on Sunday. Mourners began lining up to visit the tomb of the late Pope Francis at the St ...

When he was elevated to the papacy in 2013, Pope Francis was widely expected to shake up the Catholic Church, to liberals ... for Pope Francis at mass in St Peter’s Square on March 9, following ...

But St. Mary was one of Francis' favorite places in Rome and a church with deep personal significance to him. “It's especially beautiful because of Pope Francis' love for the basilica of Mary ...