Much of the majority immigrant congregation at St. Charles Borromeo saw Pope Francis as their spiritual champion.

The ceremony was the first local ordination in the era of Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to the papacy on May 8, succeeding ...

When Dustin Pagan-Peterson and his husband found out Pope Francis had passed, the only thing they could do after confirming it online was hold each other’s hands across the breakfast table and cry.

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop ...

The faithful in Los Angeles, America’s most Catholic city, were delighted — and a little stunned — to learn a Chicago-born priest with deep roots in Peru had been elected to lead the world’s 1.4 ...

The new leader of the Catholic Church is American Robert Francis Prevost, Cardinal Dominique Mamberti announced to a crowd in ...

I was coming from the gym around 9:30 a.m. I looked at my phone and my nephew had texted me notifying me that white smoke was emanating from the Sistine Chapel. He asked me who I thought ...

John Connelly is a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, and the author of “From Enemy to Brother ...

He applied that life experience to his last role before becoming pope: helping the late Pope Francis find candidates for bishop around the globe, beyond the Church’s traditional recruiting areas ...