The last three pontiffs each chose very different paths between Rome and home.

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago will succeed Pope Francis as the leader of the Catholic Church. Prevost, the first ...

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

U.S. President Donald Trump quickly reacted to the appointment of the first American pope on Thursday, May 8. Pope Leo XIV, ...

Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

No one knows how long it will take to elect the next Pope, but it's predicted to be at least a two or three-day wait.

That Leo softened the church’s confrontational stance toward modernity, especially science and politics and laid the ...

The Vatican officially announced the papal conclave to elect a new pope begins ... who are some of the highest-ranking leaders in the Roman Catholic Church, represents one of the most sacred ...

With no candidate securing the necessary two-thirds majority, or 89 votes, the world will need to wait longer for a new ...

The conclave to elect the next pope is now underway at the Vatican. The cardinals — the prelates who are just below the pope in the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy — will vote by secret ballot ...