The owner of Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in the suburbs of Chicago yanked the humble abode off the market overnight with potential plans to jack up the price — after learning the Catholic Church’s ...

The end of each round of balloting will be signaled by smoke emanating from a stovepipe chimney atop the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke -- fumata nera in Italian -- indicates an inconclusive vote, while ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will take place in the Sistine Chapel, with ballots continuing in succession until ...

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 ...

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

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

The ritual for electing a new pope took social media by storm this week as content creators reacted to the ancient tradition ...

Many expect the new pontiff to be a bridge-builder in the Vatican, more centrist than liberal or conservative, and a pope who will be guided by the pursuit of social equality and compassion for the po ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was ...

Students in Oklahoma Catholic schools experienced an unforgettable week as they celebrated the election of the first American ...

Being here in Rome, being part of something that’s thousands of years old, and seeing a list of every pope since St. Peter — you see this continuous chain, and you just know you’re part of ...

The sports loyalties of Pope Leo XIV became a topic of conversation almost as soon as the white smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel.