After two days of conclave and only four votes, the cardinals selected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the church's next pope.

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's ...

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

The ritual for electing a new pope took social media by storm this week as content creators reacted to the ancient tradition ...