The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

Black smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, signifying that the cardinals did not elect a new ...

As the papal conclave gets underway in Vatican City, Holy Cross Catholic Church pastor Father Noah Carter recalls his experience studying there as a seminarian during the 2013 election of Pope Francis ...

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

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

Aside from that, the idea that there isn’t a hierarchy of obligations violates basic common ... into politics — a realm not ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, has this in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy ... The case involved James Ray, then a priest in the Archdiocese of Chicago. The archdiocese placed ...

But as the meetings began, with strict rules of engagement requiring everyone to listen while others spoke, the appearance of hierarchy broke ... one individual of the priest or bishop.” ...

Advocates for victims of sex abuse say there needs to be an accounting of how then-Cardinal Robert Prevost handled such cases ...

In Peru, he was a missionary, parish priest, teacher and bishop ... to expand the geographical diversity of the church’s hierarchy and named many new cardinals, some from countries that had ...

Robert Francis Prevost was made a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2023 and was responsible for vetting nominations for bishops around the world ...