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

A tribute to Pope Leo XIV is displayed before a White Sox game inside the Rate Field baseball stadium in Chicago May 9. The screen incorrectly stated that Leo is the 268th pope (he is the 267th). (OSV ...

Cardinal Stephen Chow, 65, the bishop of Hong Kong, was the only Chinese cardinal to vote in the conclave that elected Pope ...

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

In the wake of the death of Pope Francis, Inside Edition's Mary Calvi traveled to Rome to cover the election of the new pope.

Pope Leo XIV presided over his inaugural mass Sunday, May 18, with world leaders and a crowd of 200,000 people gathered in St ...

Vista said that American Catholics are no longer excluded from Rome by having the U.S.’s first pope, but are now a complete ...

Me, cranky, I grab the phone and snarl into it: “Enough with you already. Who are you?” The pleasant tempered voice then says ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a symbol of peace in the world, during an inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square.

The former Cardinal Robert Prevost vowed to work for unity. “I think he will inspire,” said Susan Hanssen, a professor who ...