Any male baptized in the Roman Catholic church is eligible to serve as pope. The conclave is highly secretive, and the candidates do not publicly campaign for the position. The pope is the leader ...

Robert Francis Prevost has been chosen to be the new pope for the Roman Catholic Church. He will be called Pope Leo XIV ...

With deep ties to both the United States and Peru, Pope Leo steps into spiritual leadership of 1.4 billion Catholics, ...

"Within the Catholic Church ... Canonical rites, which are of equal dignity, enjoy the same rights, and are under the same obligations. Although the particular churches possess their own hierarchy ...