Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

Pope Francis delegated Cardinal Domenico Calcagno, a retired Vatican official who oversaw the Holy See’s management of real estate and investments until 2018, to preside over the Mass on April 17.

The conclave opens following days of intense deliberation. Over the past 10 days, a clear divide has begun to emerge between those who support Francis’ reforms and those who want to soften—or even ...

In his homily at the Mass for ... invocation of the Holy Spirit.” “Come, true light; come, eternal life; come, hidden mystery; come, nameless treasure; come, ineffable reality; come ...

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich led a memorial mass on Wednesday to mourn the death ... he was very deeply in touch with the reality that the risen Lord is acting and leading the church in our ...

The Archbishop of Chicago, Blase Cardinal Cupich, shared his reaction to the news of what he called a "profound loss" in the following statement: "I have received word that our Holy Father ...

It was the Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice Mass (Latin: For the election of the ... "Right," "progressives" versus "conservatives." The reality is that papal politics cannot be grafted onto the ...

Bells tolled in church towers across Rome after the announcement, which was read out by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...