Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as ...

The first American pope succeeds Francis, preaching peace while confronting Church divides and urgent global crises.

F ather Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago ...

The new pontiff Robert Prevost ... religious order which the future pope headed from 2001 to 2013. "I have met him many times since then - the last time was in Rome when he was made a cardinal ...

Robert Francis Prevost was chosen on Thursday, May 8, to succeed Pope Francis as the head of the Catholic Church.

Over 130 voting cardinals must decide whether to continue in the direction of Francis or elect a pope likely to choose a more traditional path.

Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

Overwhelmingly, newspapers ran with images of Leo XIV as he greeted the world as pope for the first time, waving to ... Newspapers featuring the new pope on the front page at a vendor in downtown ...

Still, the very fact that the new Pope ... time when America’s image was often tied to loud, combative nationalism and a cult of personality. How poetic, then, that as we turn the page, the ...

She has reported for TIME from Asia ... candidates to replace Pope John Paul II in 2005. As if to prove his point, Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, who greeted the world from the St. Peter’s balcony ...