As the National Eucharistic Revival comes to an end in the U.S. this year, many believe there is a need for a global ...

Two years earlier, Marquette University announced that it had received an unusual gift: the St. Joan of Arc Chapel. The chapel had a distinctive history. It had been built in the early 15th ...

A recently installed chimney on the roof of St. John Vianney College Seminary in St. Paul billowed white smoke into a clear, blue sky May 8, mirroring the smoke that emitted from the Sistine Chapel's ...

The cardinals electing a new pope to lead the Catholic Church left the Sistine Chapel ... University graduate moved below the radar. “I didn’t even know his name,” David of the Philippines ...

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

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released ... 25 were appointed by John Paul or Benedict. And Father Bryan Massingale of Fordham University explains why no American ...

Asked whether it was unexpected for an American to be elected, Father Reese said: “Oh yeah, shocking.” Robert Prevost, who has just been announced as the new pope, will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

It was the quickest papal election in a century, beating the conclave of 2005, when Joseph Ratzinger claimed the title in less than 36 hours.

Although hope had swelled in recent weeks in the Philippines ... Chapel closed at 5:44 p.m. Wednesday to when the white smoke appeared at 6:08 p.m. the next day. The crowd in St. Peter ...

Vatican Media, via Associated Press Visitors in St. Peter’s Square waited for hours after the conclave began. Tiziana Fabi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The doors to the Sistine Chapel ...