Across the country, Catholics and non-Catholics alike greeted the news of the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV with reverence and ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Bronzeville and raised in the south suburbs, will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

The new man, suggested another ... and the dicasteries and tribunals of the Holy See, look more like the people they are intended to serve – and thus less foolish. Dawn Eden Goldstein’s ...

Here you have a man that isn't American ... who informs the rest of the cardinals and the ambassadors to the Holy See of the pope’s death once he learns of it from the camerlengo.

White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church ...

From Ireland to the U.S. The man Francis chose to bridge his papacy ... Farrell said Francis asked him to do the same with the Holy See’s laity office, which the pontiff wanted to rebuild ...

Credit: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images When a voting session concludes without a man reaching the required ... Matteo Bruni, the director of the Holy See Press Office, said the names of ...

The smoke signal means the winner secured at least 89 votes of the 133 cardinals participating in the conclave to elect a ...