The challenges for the Catholic Church in Chicago, where Robert Prevost grew up, are a microcosm of the gargantuan problems ...

A new pope been elected the 267th bishop of Rome and leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. The new pope takes over a ...

"Francis was my pope for less than two days," said a new Catholic visiting from the U.S. "I wish he'd stayed longer, because ...

Augustinian Cardinal Robert Prevost was the least American among the American cardinals, having spent most of his ministry in ...

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential ...

Everything outside the Sistine Chapel is, now, pure conjecture and everything inside is up to the cardinals and the Holy ...

The display acts as a tribute and also a signal that the Catholic Church, and the culture and businesses that surround it, ...

"You have to trust the process … you don't want them to rush it," said Elizabeth Whelan of Newfoundland, Canada.

Francis died April 21 at age 88. He was elected March 13, 2013, after five votes in a two-day conclave. His predecessor, Pope ...

On May 7, in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, the conclave for the election of the new pope — the Catholic Church's most secret ...

Durante más de 40 años Ajita M. Vettikuzhakunnel —Hermanas Misioneras de la Reina de los Apóstoles— ha trabajado entre campesinas en el norte de la India. La religiosa fundó en 2023 una empresa colect ...