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 ... In that job he would have kept in regular contact with the Catholic ...

The Second Vatican Council unleashed a passion for change in the Roman Catholic ... the Dutch hierarchy. Once as hostile as warring African tribes, the Protestant and Catholic churches of The ...

Pope Francis, who led the Roman Catholic Church for more than 12 years and became a global ... and steadily rose through the ranks of the Catholic hierarchy in Argentina before being appointed ...

"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 ...

deeply divisive within the Roman Catholic Church, that sought to fundamentally reorient the institution as more liberal and less beholden to its own hierarchy, which he left less White ...