To many, Pope Leo XIV seemed a different sort of American, a man who served the poor of Peru for decades, who spoke Spanish ...

Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual ...

“If the Catholic Church wants to survive in this fast-changing world, it needs to change and the pope needs to lead that way,” said Caniglia, adding that the new pope must address issues such as ...

PRRI combined U.S. Census and MIT Election Lab data from 3,142 counties to estimate local religious demographics. Among Bay ...

It was a clarion call not just to the 1.39 billion Catholic faithful around the world—almost 17% of the world’s total population. And nearly 20% of America’s total population, too ...

Bets on real-world events are becoming more common, and putting down some money on who will become the Catholic Church’s next leader is just one more example.

P olitical figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election ...

The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the globe. Many conservative Roman Catholic Church leaders disagreed with Pope ...

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns around the world, and they dedicate their lives to a variety of religious ...

“If the Catholic Church wants to survive in this fast-changing world, it needs to change and the pope needs to lead that way,” said Caniglia, adding that the new pope must address issues such ...