At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

The new pope echoed themes that Francis, his predecessor, regularly addressed, as he appeared in front of thousands of the ...

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, previously known as Robert Francis Prevost, gave his first ...

This past week, the whole world tuned into the Papal conclave, wherein the next leader of the Catholic Church or the vicar of ...

Robert Prevost, a tennis-loving, Wordle-playing White Sox fan from Chicago, is now leader of the world's nearly 1.5 billion Catholics. Vatican observers describe what the election of Leo XIV, the ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked at a news briefing about the pope's X account and his posts that shared criticism of Trump and Vance's policies. The conference brought cardinals ...

One of the biggest challenges Pope Leo XIV faces has to do with whether the Church should be more welcoming towards the LGBT ...

Nobody does drama like the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church,” said Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, ...

Pope Francis passed away peacefully at 7:35 a.m. in his room at Casa Santa Marta, a Vatican guesthouse where he chose to live instead of the Apostolic Palace since his election as Pope in 2013. He had ...