Before Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became pope, a social media account under his name shared criticisms of the Trump ...

“Clericalizing women,” he said, would not “necessarily” solve problems in the church — and could ... more conservative bishops from the Roman Catholic organization Opus Dei.

The new pope, US cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, will be known as Pope Leo XIV. The pope is the bishop of Rome and the visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church. There are around 1.41 billion ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York, about the significance of the Cardinals electing the first pope from the United States.

Follow live coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a ...

The College of Cardinals will gather on Wednesday to choose the successor of Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday.

Among the 133 cardinals swearing the oath was the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Liverpool born Vincent Nichols. He was joined by cardinal Timothy Radcliffe and cardinal ...

Just before Christmas in 2023 ... the official directory of the Roman Catholic Church. Vatican officials vouch for the database’s authenticity. Using that information as a foundation, a team ...

It is a rule of Catholic journalism that rumors abound in ... Burke is not, as Pentin states, "one of the Church's foremost canon lawyers." His interpretation of Canon 915 as justifying the ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, has emerged as an intriguing possibility ahead of ...