More than 130 cardinals from all over the world are gathering today for the papal conclave, through which a new head of the ...

The United States is the home country of 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope of the Catholic Church.

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago and raised in the south suburb of Dolton, where even his old house has become a point of pilgrimage.

A Latin phrase for “all out,” it's spoken by the master for papal liturgical celebrations, currently Italian Archbishop Diego ...

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. All the support staff for the cardinals who will ...

Pope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of hostages and delivery of humanitarian aid.

"May God bless our church, under our new pontiff ... said he thought the late pope was "distinct" from Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, who were "like symphonies, all these movements ...

The 16th century church, built over the traditional tomb ... processes from a pope’s death until a new one is elected. St. John Paul II issued it in 1996 during his papacy, and Pope Benedict ...

The first U.S.-born pope, Leo XIV, acknowledged the weight of his new role during his inaugural Mass in the Sistine Chapel.