At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

Roman Catholic cardinals will begin the task of electing a new pope, locking themselves away from the world until they choose ...

A senior Italian cardinal was very close to becoming the new pope, but another candidate gained strong support at the last ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...

Odds are on a short conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor, with 267th pope likely to be picked by Thursday or Friday ...

Election could be most unpredictable in church’s history with 133 diverse and divided participants in Sistine Chapel ...

The contender whose odds have waxed and waned most since the death of Pope Francis last month is Cardinal Pietro Parolin (70) ...

There is a monumental task facing cardinal electors in the coming days choosing the next spiritual leader of the 1.4 billion ...

While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of ...

Japanese Cardinal Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo says Pope Leo XIV’s previous work as a missionary and as a Vatican official were ...

Pope Leo XIV made a Kerry teenager an honorary Augustinian in 2013 - just two days before the young boy passed away. Donal ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, said he expects Pope Leo XIV "feels an obligation," to speak to what he called ...