Cardinal Blase Cupich leads the beginning of a Catholic Mass begins while celebrating the election of Pope Leo XIV with a citywide gathering at Rate Field on June 14, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV, the new leader of the Catholic Church, presided over his inaugural Mass at the Vatican on Sunday, where thousands of people and a number of world leaders gathered to meet and ...

Members of the Black Catholic Choir, Michael Hill, left, and Deborah Powell, right, sing to detainees during Cardinal Blase J. Cupich’s Christmas Day Mass at Cook County Jail on Dec. 25, 2024.

The Rev. Ricky Malebranche holds the hand of 9-month-old Andres Roman Marquez after baptizing him at St. Louis Catholic Church in Alexandria, Va., on Saturday, May 24, 2025.

From the January/February 2023 issue: The reinvention of the Catholic Church Some Latin Mass–goers have responded to the restrictions by turning to liturgies offered by breakaway groups.