It is a very nice thing for America and the world that the new pope, Leo XIV — who will help guide the faith of more than a ...

Excitement rippled through New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday morning, the first since an American was picked ...

“I’m ecstatic,” said Alec Maddox, 32, a consultant who lives in San Diego, although he and his two brothers, Tommy, 30, and ...

The election of Cardinal Robert Prevost​, who will now forever be known as Pope Leo XIV​ and the first American pope​,​ ...

When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he ...

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

The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the ...

Here's when we could see smoke -- and a new pope -- now that the conclave is getting underway in Vatican City.

Catholics are putting church over state when it comes to a new law requiring priests to report confessions about child abuse -- and the Department of Justice has their back.

And the family did not identify as Black, his brother told The New York Times. Still ... On the other hand, the ubiquity of the Catholic Church in this French-settled community provided a space ...