Louis Prevost is equal parts excited, mind blown and a little worried about how the papacy will impact his relationship with his little brother.

White smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel today signaled that a conclave of cardinals selected a new pope: Robert Prevost ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first pope who belongs to the Order of Saint Augustine, whose principles, priests say, offer a window ...

Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches, cheered from classrooms and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision ...

Pope Leo XVI, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, held the first Mass of his papacy in the Sistine Chapel on Friday morning, ...

The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.

Since the birth of the modern environment movement in the 1970s, every pope has turned attention toward matters of ecology — ...

For this conclave these kingmakers are said to include Timothy Dolan, the conservative archbishop of New York; Jean-Claude ...

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch once mused about what an average man of his age would answer if asked what helped him more, ...

A cell phone tableau of inclusion and splendor from last year’s synod contrasts the Francis pontificate with this week’s ...

When the legendary St. Teresa of Ávila needed spiritual counsel during the Spanish Inquisition, she did not turn to St. John ...

As members of the College of Cardinals prepare for the conclave, they face a profound choice: Build on the late pope’s ...