The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

Pope Leo XIV's election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally ...

When I heard Robert Francis Prevost was elected the new pope and that he was raised in my hometown of Chicago, I cheered ...

While the Catholic Church's College of Cardinals is still ... the election of the Polish Pope John Paul II in 1978, the first non-Italian pontiff in 455 years, marked a significant paradigm ...

Editor's note: White smoke from the chimney of the ... His successor, Pope John Paul II, was Polish, the first non-Italian pope in 455 years. With the election of Parolin, the church would return ...

When the Associated Press reported on Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio's election as Pope Francis, they noted that Bergoglio was first non-European ... 2025, an Italian church historian said that ...

Speaking with participants in last year’s Arena of Peace, Pope Leo says the Gospel and the Church’s social doctrine are a ...

Contenders for pope emerge from the U.S., Asia, and Africa—raising the chance of a non-European successor to Francis.