Inside the secretive meeting, cardinals will use an array of objects, many steeped in tradition, as they elect the next pope.

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

The papacy is a global platform, so the issues Pope Leo chooses to focus on can resonate far beyond the church.

Pope Leo XIV has never been accused of abuse, but has been in positions of authority when accusations of sexual abuse have ...

He was ordained in 1982, then served two decades in Peru as a "missionary, parish priest, teacher and bishop" while obtaining citizenship in that country before rising in the Vatican hierarchy.

After Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88, the process of electing the next pontiff will begin. Cardinal electors, the vast ...

In Peru, Pope Leo XIV is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded the region, ...

Pope Leo XIV has echoed his predecessor’s urgent call for an end to the assault that has killed more than 52,000 Palestinians ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

“The pope is not your friend. He is not going to sit down and have a beer with you,” he says. “If you think the pope is your ...

He approved procedures to investigate bishops who abused or covered up for their pedophile priests, seeking to end the tradition of impunity for the hierarchy. Ivereigh, the papal biographer ...

Pope Leo XIV, the day after his election, decided to temporarily retain the current heads of the offices of the Roman Curia ...