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

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

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

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first person from the United States to lead the Catholic Church, is taking on a financial headache in his ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio emerged onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after the conclave of March 2013, few ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel where he was elected less than 24 hours earlier, warning of the ...

Pope Francis marked multiple firsts for the papacy, becoming the first Latin American pope and the first from the Southern ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has been elected as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Francis. The 69-year-old, the first American to hold the position ...

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

Prime ministers, presidents and former presidents from across the political spectrum have come out to congratulate Cardinal ...

PRRI combined U.S. Census and MIT Election Lab data from 3,142 counties to estimate local religious demographics. Among Bay ...