The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.

"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

European pope in centuries, Francis was especially aware of colonialism’s impact and the need to embrace many cultures within ...

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...

A U.S. bishop thought it was unlikely that Catholic cardinals would break with more than two centuries of precedent to pick a ...

At his funeral, Pope Francis was remembered and venerated as a pontiff with "strength and serenity" who modeled his pontificate on St. Francis of Assisi. The dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni ...

Pope Leo XIV's election marks a historic moment: the first pope from an English-speaking country, and the first from the ...

The new pope had a close relationship with Francis, whose legacy looms large. A key inspiration for that legacy, however, is the witness of Latin American Christians whose blood has been shed for ...

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...