In his first official appointment, Pope Leo named a woman to head a major Vatican office. Sister Simona Brambilla is now the ...

As a bishop in Peru, Robert Prevost was often on the lookout for used cars that he could buy cheap and fix up himself for use ...

The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds, and it's got a very big budget problem. It primarily finances the ...

By Jed Nelson There are moments in history that are so important, so joyful or tragic that we remember exactly where we were or what we were doing when the news was broken to us. The moment the TV ...

Robert Prevost, as bishop of Chiclayo, initiated a process with the Vatican for the recognition of a 17th-century Eucharistic ...

The cardinals would sit in a hall in a half circle with the dean of the college of cardinals, the Italian Giovanni Battista, ...

Pope Leo XIV met Thursday with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory panel for the first time amid questions ...

COMMENTARY: Not since 1808, when Bishop John Carroll was elevated to serve the see of Baltimore, has the Catholic Church in ...

The Papal conclave has elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new leader of the Catholic Church. Here’s what we know ...

Since news of the new pope, Robert Prevost, who assumed the name Leo XIV, hit the wires, he has been universally celebrated ...

DOLTON — Robert Prevost now holds the highest office in the Catholic Church. One of his childhood neighbors, Holly Boblink, was pulling weeds in her South Side garden when white smoke poured ...

I haven’t encountered any American who didn’t experience one of those sentiments upon learning a U.S. citizen became the next pope.