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.

In lavish halls, days before a conclave will select a new pope, power brokers came together for a mix of devotion, activism, ...

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

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

Starting July 1, the Catholic churches that serve Rome and Lee Center will merge into a single parish. Church leaders said ...

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