Our team was in St. Peter’s Square for the historic election, and we’re here with first reactions and some important details ...

For us, as Hispanics who are suffering in the United States, it gives us great hope to believe that this next pope will be ...

Pope Leo XIII, who was pope from 1878-1903, is known for publishing the encyclical "Rerum Novarum" on worker's rights -- ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has chosen the papal name Leo XIV, appears on the central balcony of St. Peter's ...

It’s hard to describe the mood in Vatican City right now. There is great expectation and excitement but also a sense of ...

For much of the past century, the conclave has needed between three and 14 ballots to find a pope. John Paul I—the pope who ...

The world won’t know who the electors have chosen as the next pope until the moment that man’s names (both his given name and ...

Now that the 133 cardinal electors are ensconced in the Sistine Chapel to elect a successor to Pope Francis, some potential ...

Do we really trust the Holy Spirit to guide the election of a pope? What does that trust feel like? Zac, Ashley, Sebastian ...

Whoever follows Francis must take up the legacy of Vatican II and of Pope Francis and engage the world without fear because ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, O.S.A., a former prior general of the Augustinians and longtime missionary in Peru, did not enter the conclave as a favorite to succeed Pope Francis. His reputation as a ...

Catholics and non-Catholics alike—throughout the world, however imperfectly, in the way the pope does. The world needs the ...