How will Leo’s formative three decades in the United States before life in Peru and Rome shape his church of 1.4 billion souls? Yes, the cardinals must be thinking an American could solve the Holy See ...

"May we follow this great and shining star that was Joseph Ratzinger ... celebration of the Old Latin Mass and largely overturned Summorum Pontificum. Although Cardinal Sarah and Pope Francis ...

Pope Leo XIV asked Sunday for prayers for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See, as he made his first public ...

A striking corrective to the traditional Catholic view that the Pope is the rock on which the church is built is contained in Leo XIV’s sermon at his Inauguration Mass, last week. The sermon appears ...

The odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph ... habemus Papam," Latin for "I announce a great joy to you; we have a pope!" Ratzinger appeared moments later ...

The Vatican press corps is watching Leo XIV very closely for clues to the kind of pope he plans to be, writes William Crawley.

Because of the pope’s role to maintain the fullness of tradition and the unity of the Church, a pope cannot be conservative or liberal in a political sense.

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

Cardinal Robert Prevost spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful office of bishops ...

A senior cardinal earlier confirmed the election with the term ‘Habemus Papam’ Latin for “we have a pope ... one of the priests from celebrating Mass. The diocese of Chiclayo said ...