The sports loyalties of Pope Leo XIV became a topic of conversation almost as soon as the white smoke emerged from the ...

Follow live coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a ...

Habemus papam! It’s Robert Francis Prevost! For the first time, we have an American pope in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year ...

VATICAN CITY — White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled ...

The historic choice came as a surprise to some, including Lincoln Bishop James D. Conley, who said he was “shocked but ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's ...

The speed with which white smoke appeared from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling a new pope had been chosen, came as a surprise to the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Winnipeg.

Chants of "Viva el Papa" rang out in Thursday night's Thanksgiving Mass. "A new era has dawned. God is with us," the ...

If you are ever graced with the opportunity to be in St. Peter’s Square when the white smoke billows out of the Sistine ...

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

Father Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago ...

Americans are cheering for the new leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, whose name is Robert Francis Prevost.