Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills) is seeking to have a statue of the Chicago-born pontiff built at the Illinois ...

Pope Leo appealed on Wednesday for a ceasefire in Gaza and called on Israel and Hamas militants to completely respect ...

As many celebrate Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost's historic selection as pope, the world's largest organization for clergy sexual abuse victims is worried about the pontiff's past handling of ...

She has reported for TIME from Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Any baptized man can become pope, but traditionally he (and it is always a ‘he’) is elected from the college of Cardinals.

Newly-elected Pope Leo addresses the crowd on the main central loggia balcony of St. Peter's Basilica for the first time on May 8, 2025. Newly-elected Pope Leo addresses the crowd on the main ...

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, center, with other cardinals at St. Peter's Basilica on April 23. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP) 33,714 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster ...

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the ...

The name a new pope chooses will "indicate a certain spirit and direction and vision of the new pope," said Dennis Doyle, a theologian and professor emeritus of religious studies at the University ...

Sixteen days after the reign of Pope Francis ended with his death on Easter Monday, the Catholic Church is looking to the future. The papal conclave got underway Wednesday afternoon in Rome ...