Pope celebrates Mass in parish church with special ties to his Augustinian order By NICOLE WINFIELD and SILVIA STELLACCI The Associated Press, Updated July 14, 2025, 12:23 a.m.

Pope Leo XIV waves to faithful as he arrives to celebrate a mass inside the St. Thomas of Villanova church in Castel Gandolfo, Sunday, July 13, 2025.

Priests can now celebrate Mass "for the care of creation" after the Vatican announced that a new formulary of prayers and biblical readings for the Mass will be added to the Roman Missal. Pope Leo ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The parents of the first victim in the Kingsessing mass shooting have filed a lawsuit against the seller of the ghost gun that was recovered at the scene.

A woman attacked a 2-year-old girl and her parents with pepper spray during Mass on Jun. 22 after allegedly being annoyed by the child’s behavior.

GoFundMe efforts set up for 2 heroes who prevented mass church shooting So far, the GoFundMe has raised more than $21,000 toward a new truck.

The gunman had attended services there a couple of times in the last year and his mother is a member of the church, police said.

(WAYNE, Mich.) — An alleged active shooter intent on attacking a Michigan church on Sunday was shot and killed by a security guard who “prevented a large-scale mass shooting,” police said.

A suicide bomber in Syria on Sunday detonated himself inside a church filled with people, state television and a war monitor said.

WAYNE COUNTY, MI – The police chief at Wayne Police Department said “heroic” actions by church security and a parishioner prevented a mass shooting on Sunday, June 22.

Authorities responded to a gunman at CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne. Two church employees returned fire and killed the shooter, officials said.

CrossPointe Community Church staff shot an armed man, potentially averting a mass Wayne, Michigan shooting, police said.