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Much of the world’s attention is on the Vatican, where the conclave has begun and cardinals are meeting to select a successor ...

The Catholic Church made history Thursday with the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff. The moment carried ...

As the conclave to find Pope Francis’ successor continues, the cardinals are not eating gourmet food amid their sequestered ...

A leader with global experience, he spent much of his career as a missionary in South America and most ... the only Latin American pontiff in history, died last month at the age of 88.

Texas artist Michael Tracy died in 2024. The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio has staged a right-sized exhibit of his potent ...

Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images= Share VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin ... a hero to the liberation theology movement in Latin America, was canonized after his case ...

The 69-year-old will become Leo XIV as he succeeds the late Pope Francis, who brought the Peruvian-American to the Vatican ...

Francis-era reforms that saw a diverse group of cardinals join the mix make his successor nearly impossible to call.

Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term have seen a president emboldened by his November victory move aggressively ...