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

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

The bells of St. Peter's rang out, signalling that cardinals have elected a new pope to succeed Pope Francis and take charge ...

White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church ...

VATICAN CITY, — Robert Prevost, the new pope selected after Pope Francis' death, has chosen the name Leo, used by 13 popes ...

Mayor Wilmot Collins said he was told L. Ron Hubbard was a "successful Helena native" and that he didn't know Hubbard founded ...

As Catholics, our arms will be wide open to the world. We will accompany the world. We will live in the world.

The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.

Even before he stepped out on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and spoke May 8, Pope Leo XIV's choice of a name was a ...