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

Following the election of Pope Leo XIV, social media has exploded with Christians (mostly non-Catholics) claiming that the ...

Leo, the first American pope, told the cardinals that he was fully committed to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the 1960s meetings that modernized the church. He identified AI as one of the ...

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

After nearly 200 years, a Roman Catholic clerical order will be cutting ties with the Lima area, according to a release by ...

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

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 ...

Cardinal Filoni pointed to what was until this week the most recent Leonine pope, Pope Leo XIII, who lead the Church from ...

Pope Leo XIV will give his first Sunday noon blessing since being elected as the first U.S.-born pope in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year history.

ROME - The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...