History was made at the Vatican on Thursday.The College of Cardinals elected a new pope on day two of the conclave.Pope Leo ...

“He’s a bridge builder among continents,” Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a Notre Dame professor of American studies and history, said during NBC’s live TV coverage of the papal announcement.

ANALYSIS: Through his words, gestures and even liturgical picks, the new Pope is synthesizing what came before him.

Robert Prevost, elected pope Thursday, grew up in Dolton. Former neighbors and local Catholics reacted to the election of the first American pontiff in the church's 2,000-year history.

In his first days as pope, Leo XIV has struck many as an unassuming man of quiet warmth and deeply rooted identity. A visit ...

During Francis’ pontificate, the Catholic Church in the United States was torn between reform-minded factions and a staunchly ...

The bells of the cathedral in Peru’s capital of Lima, at Holy Name Cathedral in downtown Chicago and of the University of Notre Dame's Basilica of the Sacred Heart tolled after Prevost’s ...

It's been too long since Notre Dame and Butler last played basketball against one another, something that will change (sort ...

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita issued a letter Thursday accusing the University of Notre Dame of potentially violating ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - The bells at the University of Notre Dame’s Basilica of the Sacred Heart rang in celebration on Thursday afternoon as white smoke billowed from the chimney on the roof ...

Rokita says in the letter that Notre Dame’s responses to the inquiry will help determine whether further action is warranted ...