The new pontiff, who was born in Chicago and served for two decades in Peru, will soon face difficult decisions about the ...

Hebda also announced he will hold a Mass for Pope Leo XIV at the Cathedral in St. Paul on Thursday, which is scheduled to ...

An Italian flag on the Vittorio Emanuele building in Rome. Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP. After drastically narrowing access to Italian citizenship by descent last month, Italy's government is ...

The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that ...

For a brief moment, it seemed Spokane would have a direct link to the papacy, and more so than just the Washington State ...

While younger cardinals are busy choosing the new pope, older cardinals are mostly waiting it out like the rest of us ...

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...

For years, Jason Vanderlinden worked a hot dog cart outside the Kansas City Municipal Court building at 11th and Cherry. He ...

Members of the clergy react as they see the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, making his first appearance in the ...

The new pontiff urged people to "build bridges through dialogue, through encounter, to come together as one people, always in ...