Italian brain rot videos have been trending, but people are starting to discover some strange facts about them. CBC Kids News contributor Matthew Hines breaks down this new online trend.

Yet the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel chose Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native, as the 267th pope of the ...

Chicago, a uniquely meme-able city, was the center of a ton of jokes. Here is some of the internet’s best work.

Pope Leo XIV is celebrating his first Mass as pontiff on Friday as he assumes leadership of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics. He will soon confront urgent questions about the church’s direction.

It cautions: “He who enters a conclave as a pope, leaves it as a cardinal.” The race to succeed Francis, who died last month, is seen as wide open. Although a few names have been cited as ...

Pope Francis ... to the brain, and an irreversible cardiocirculatory collapse means that he had a sudden failure of the heart to maintain blood flow, according to ABC News. Francis died after ...

Update: American Cardinal Robert Prevost has been chosen as the new pope and took the name Leo XIV — the first pope in history from the United States. Pope Francis' death on April 21, the day ...

This Wednesday the 133 cardinals with the right to vote are secluded in the Sistine Chapel and will not leave until they have selected a successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21 after 12 ...

Pope Francis donated it before his passing, asking that it be used to care for injured and malnourished children.

Pope Francis’ tenure signified a new leaf for the Catholic church, embracing digital communication—he was the first pope to write an op-ed for the New York Times—and expressing ...

Cardinals from around the world must gather for the conclave in which Francis’ successor is selected. It typically takes between two and three weeks for a pope to be chosen, though it can ...

Show more Show less Roman Catholic cardinals are meeting to start preparing his funeral and succession Masses have been held around the world Pope Francis's apartment in the Vatican has been ...