At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

The pre-conclave favorite, Italy’s Pietro Parolin had a good number of preferences in the first two votes, but his support ...

In response to some Filipinos expressing disappointment that none of the three anticipated “papabile” cardinals from the ...

This past week, the whole world tuned into the Papal conclave, wherein the next leader of the Catholic Church or the vicar of ...

Robert Prevost, who was promoted by Francis and has a knack for management and a zeal for missionary work, was a stronger ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, previously known as Robert Francis Prevost, gave his first ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...

Robert Prevost, a tennis-loving, Wordle-playing White Sox fan from Chicago, is now leader of the world's nearly 1.5 billion Catholics. Vatican observers describe what the election of Leo XIV, the ...

Pope Francis passed away peacefully at 7:35 a.m. in his room at Casa Santa Marta, a Vatican guesthouse where he chose to live instead of the Apostolic Palace since his election as Pope in 2013. He had ...

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

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church of his new country, Peru. In fact, he became a Peruvian citizen,” Canadian ...

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.