VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

The conclave of May 7–8 has yet to reveal all its secrets. But two weeks after the election of Leo XIV, our reporters in Rome ...

I don’t think he’s the kind of man who sends coded messages,” Cardinal Michael Czerny says in this exclusive interview with ...

Since the election of Pope Leo XIV, a growing number of cardinals have been offering unusual glimpses into the conclave ...

On Compass Geraldine Doogue and Noel Debien are in Vatican City to follow the drama and political intrigue of Conclave. As cardinals gather in Rome to elect the next Pope, Compass is there to follow ...

Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David met with a visiting senior leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on ...

I’M originally from Chicago, and when I travel, that fact has historically prompted responses such as “oh, like Michael ...

As someone who does not enjoy being put in the limelight, I found the attention rather unsettling.” This is what Cardinal ...

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David on Wednesday shared his experience as a cardinal-elector at the recently concluded concluded ...

Pope Leo XIV’s papacy will be a reforming one, particularly focused on governance, with more synodality embedded in the ...