And they will determine whether the adage "fat pope, thin pope" holds true or whether the next leader of the Catholic Church ...

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Cardinal Daniel DiNardo led the Sioux City diocese as bishop for six years during the early 2000s. The 75-year-old is ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

Pope Leo XIV gave a homily at a Mass a day after he was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. Here's what the new pontiff said, ...

Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

However, for centuries, popes have only been chosen from among the Catholic cardinals, the church's most senior officials. The conclave takes place in the Sistine Chapel, behind sealed doors.

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

The conclave lasted one day and 24 minutes ... told reporters that the pope is truly the father of the Catholic Church. “We rely on him to teach us, we rely on him to guide us, and we so ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

Douthat: Isn’t one under-the-radar issue at the conclave whether the church should extend what ... the leader of a tiny Catholic community in a Protestant and hyper-secularized country, but ...