Pablo Virgilio Cardinal David has something to tell the candidates in the upcoming elections: let us help one another to have ...

Religious affairs expert Martin O’Brien reports from Rome on the prospects of the man chosen to lead the Catholic Church ...

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

Thousands of people put up their screens to see the 2024 movie "Conclave" in the days leading up to the actual papal election ...

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 ...

His tally was rising with each round of voting, while support for the early front-runner—Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin—was ...

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, an ally of President Donald Trump, played the role of “kingmaker” in the selection of Pope ...

Pope Leo XIV said yesterday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing, as he celebrated his first mass. Details began to emerge yesterday of how votes quickly coalesced to make him ...

Very human, very humble, but very discerning.” This is how Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle described then Cardinal Robert Francis ...

Papal Conclave selected an American as the new pope. Cardinal Robert Prevost, was born in Chicago in 1955, and is the first ...

(RNS) — The Holy Spirit surprised us Thursday (May 8) by electing Robert Prevost, an Illinois native who is also a citizen of ...

The inauguration Mass on May 18 will be the formal installation ceremony where Pope Leo XIV will receive the Fisherman’s Ring and the pallium as symbols of his papal office. The “taking possession” ...