Plumes of white smoke streaming from a Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday signaled that a new leader of the Roman Catholic ...

More than a century ago, Pope Leo XIII issued Rerum Novarum , the Church’s groundbreaking endorsement of workers’ rights.

Robert Prevost, the choice of the world's Catholic cardinals to serve as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Church, is the ...

Whether you are American, you are an Italian, you are Asian, European or whatever race or descent, it doesn’t undermine your ...

Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday (May 8) after cardinals from around the globe chose him to be the ...

Thousands of people have gathered in Vatican Square to witness the first appearance of the newly elected pope. White smoke was released from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Thursday evening, ...

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday, signaling that the 133 cardinals working inside had reached a two-thirds majority to elect a ...

Harry Styles fans think he was spotted incognito at Pope Leo XIV's Vatican speech during the pope's historical announcement ...

Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the first pope from the United States. But in Peru, he is known as ...

After the white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney on Thursday, all across the world, learning the Catholic Church ...

And yet, the biggest W the Cubs have flown this year has nothing to do with any of that. It came all the way from Vatican ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of ...