In the frenzied days leading up to the papal conclave following Pope Francis’s passing on April 21, speculation was rampant: ...

The world watched as white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel, signaling the swift election of Cardinal Robert Francis ...

Catholics around the world are continuing to celebrate the selection of a new leader of the church, including students at ...

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until ...

Dolan spoke about the new Pope to CNN's Erin Burnett. “Exhausting. That’s a good sense,” he said of how he was feeling.

The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a ...

In the summer of 1973, the war was still raging in Vietnam, the Watergate scandal was unfolding in Washington, and protests ...

"JD Vance is wrong," the future-pope wrote on Feb. 3, echoing the title of the op-ed in the National Catholic Reporter.

Pope Leo XIV will give his first Sunday noon blessing since being elected as the first U.S.-born pope in the Catholic ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost is the new head of the Catholic Church who has led the faithful in Latin America and ...

Robert Prevost, who was promoted by Francis and has a knack for management and a zeal for missionary work, was a stronger ...

Though Leo XIV is from Chicago, his election to the papacy reflects the move of Christianity toward the Global South.