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

The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo led the Sioux City diocese as bishop for six years during the early 2000s. The 75-year-old is ...

The Catholic Church is not dying from persecution. It is dying from confusion. Under Pope Francis, ambiguity became policy.

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

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

And they will determine whether the adage "fat pope, thin pope" holds true or whether the next leader of the Catholic Church ...

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The first thing the new pope will do is choose a name. In the history of the papacy, the most commonly used name has been ...

Gerard O'Connell speaks to Colleen Dulle and Sam Sawyer, SJ about the unexpectedly quick election of Pope Leo XIV.

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a ...