Students at St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic school witnessed history Thursday with the selection of the first-ever American-born ...

From hushed chambers to movie screens, the mysterious ritual of the papal conclave continues to captivate audiences worldwide ...

Seminarians from the Grand Rapids were among the thousands who celebrated in St. Peter’s Square Thursday as a new pope was ...

Being here in Rome, being part of something that’s thousands of years old, and seeing a list of every pope since St. Peter — you see this continuous chain, and you just know you’re part of ...

White smoke from the Sistine Chapel on May 8, 2025, signalled the arrival of a new Pope, and soon afterwards, Cardinal Robert ...

After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a pope had been chosen, students in every classroom at The Frances Xavier Warde School in Chicago had their eyes glued to TV ...

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's ...

The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...

White smoke was seen emanating from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, indicating that a two-thirds vote has been reached to ...

In his first mass as the new leader of the Catholic Church on Friday, Pope Leo XIV warned that losing one’s faith can have ...