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

Simony, properly defined by the Catholic Church as the selling of ecclesiastical offices and positions, has been designated ...

The Modality for Choosing a Pope The election of a Pope, known as the papal conclave, is one of the most solemn and secretive ...

A sexual abuse survivors' group is asking Pope Leo XIV to sign new canon law on sex abuse by priests in the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV's church is growing steadily, but its believers are no longer concentrated on the continent where it was born.