At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

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

On the first Sunday following the election of Pope Leo XIV, many gathered at St. James Cathedral to honor the new pontiff.

Tens of thousands of faithful Catholics gathered in St. Peter’s Square to watch Pope Leo XIV deliver the first Sunday ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

A new state law in Washington is set to take effect this summer, but members of the Catholic clergy are refusing to comply ...

As 18-year-old Bobby Gumpright rode his bike home from his bartending job in New Orleans in 1999, he began to concoct a story ...