Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s office ...

Chicago is a city of deep rivalries – the South Side and North Side, the Cubs and the White Sox, Democrats and Republicans.

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, celebrated his first Mass as pontiff on Friday, presiding in the Sistine ...

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

While the next pope is almost certainly well-known already in Vatican City, the rest of the world should prepare to be surprised.

New video depicts the sealing of the papal apartments after the death of Pope Francis. The scene is all too familiar with the ...

The Vatican is attracting visitors from all over the world for Pope Francis's funeral but there is one surprising rule every tourist must follow as I found out.

Enea Silvio Piccolomini left a detailed memoir of his election as Pius II in 1458. In it he describes a process of ...

The Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with as many as four more rounds of voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion ...

In East Timor, where Francis’ final outdoor Mass drew nearly half of the population last September, President Jose ...

MORE than Diego Maradona and more than Lionel Messi, Pope Francis was the most famous Argentinian who ever lived — and, even ...