As Pope Leo XIV stepped out in front of cheering crowds outside of St. Peter’s Basilica to give his first speech as head of ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

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

Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, ...

Will the adage 'fat pope, thin pope' bear out as cardinals pick a successor to Pope Francis in the May 7 conclave?

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has become the Catholic Church’s new pope. His election was announced by the Vatican on Thursday afternoon, with the newly elected pope stepping out to address those gath ...

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.