Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American, has been named the new pope of the Catholic Church ... choose the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics. The electors reconvened in ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been picked to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church; he will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Attention now turns to what vision the first U.S ...

Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman Catholic Church might take. By The New York Times A new Roman Catholic ...

The Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic order founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola. According to the Jesuits' website, the Jesuits consist of 14,000-plus priests ...

Francis captured the imaginations of believers and non-believers alike. Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of ...

The pope, the Bishop of Rome, is considered a successor to Saint Peter and holds authority over the Catholic Church ... Here's what to know. All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the ...

With a conclave to select a new pope typically not taking place for two to three weeks after a pontiff's passing, several weeks can go by without a pope leading the Roman Catholic Church.

Many conservative Roman Catholic Church leaders disagreed with Pope Francis, who was often a darling of liberals around the world. But the typical divisions between progressives and conservatives ...