was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. In his first words as ...

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LEXINGTON, Tenn.—One local church celebrates moms with a special Sunday service. First Baptist Church located at 50 Stanford Ave. in Lexington hosted its Mother’s Day service. The service ...

The First Baptist boys soccer program won its first state title since 1991, winning the SCISA Class AAA state championship with a 3-2 win over Pinewood Prep on May 10. The championship win avenged ...

Pope Leo XIV gave his first homily at a Mass on Friday, one day after he was selected by a conclave of cardinals at the Vatican to lead the Catholic Church. The first U.S. pope in history said he ...

warning of the dangers caused by a lack of faith and hoping the Catholic Church could be a beacon lighting the world’s “dark nights.” Leo, the former Cardinal Robert Prevost and the first U ...

The pope prayed for peace in his first official remarks, but his words come against a backdrop of deadly wars, a long shadow of abuse within the church he now leads, and chaos and division at home ...

2:07 Sights and sounds from Pope Leo XIV’s first appearance In the homily, Leo, 69, painted a picture of the Church he would like to see, saying he would seek to serve as the “faithful ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...

The new Pope, Leo XIV, has called in his first Mass at the Vatican for the Catholic Church to "desperately" counter a lack of faith. Speaking the day after he was elected as the 267th Pope and ...