WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will meet with Pope Francis in January, likely the president's final international trip just days before he leaves the Oval Office, the White House announced on ...

Here is when and where boys basketball teams from the Peoria area will be playing in 2024 holiday tournaments, which start around the state on Tuesday, Dec. 26. Saturday, Dec. 28 results Friday ...

He scored 10 of his game-high 22 points in the first quarter, and hit three of the Spartans' six first-half 3-pointers. St. Francis led Yorkville by 18 at halftime and held on for a 62-55 win in ...

Pope Francis recalled the witness of persecuted Christians around the world on Thursday as he celebrated the feast of St. Stephen, the Church’s first martyr. In his Angelus address on Dec. 26 ...

Deputies arrested Thomas Campbell Bolling Von Goetz, of Avenue, on Dec. 26 following investigations into disruptive and dangerous behavior at Holy Angels Catholic Church in Avenue and St. Francis ...

Edwardsville defeated Francis Howell in a quarterfinal game of the Don Maurer Holiday Invitational at MICDS in St. Louis on Thursday ... “He’s a pretty hard high school kid to guard ...

Pope Francis called for peace around the world and for global conflicts to end in his annual “Urbi et Orbi” Christmas message to the faithful. Speaking from the central balcony of St. Peter ...

Francis also mentioned the Ukraine conflict directly and called for “the boldness needed to open the door to negotiation.” Speaking from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to ...

From his wheelchair, Francis knocked a few times and the great Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica swung open. He was wheeled across the threshold as bells tolled across Rome and the choir inside ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday opened the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, marking the official beginning of the Jubilee year of the Catholic Church. In a Christmas Eve ceremony rich with ...

Pope Francis has opened the great Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church that is ...

(Alessandro Penso for The Washington Post) Opening the Holy Doors of St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve, Pope Francis inaugurates ... than this year’s record high. Jubilees are a Catholic ...