More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

White smoke has emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a new pope has been elected to lead the Roman ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

If the new pope is able to update church teachings on some hot-button issues, it will be because Pope Francis set the stage ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV brings the Catholic Church closer to the United States in a way it has never been before, but ...

A group of Northeast Pennsylvania residents witnessed history. A group of 48 people from Luzerne and Lackawanna counties ...

From Europe to the Asia Pacific, millions of Catholics are celebrating the election of U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV as the 267th ...

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