Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago, has spent the bulk of his career outside the United States. Supporters ...

Over 12 years as pope, Francis tried to remake the U.S. Catholic hierarchy more in his image, elevating pastors who ...

Pope Francis, in his pontificate, made significant strides in appointing women to Vatican leadership roles. Despite ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile,” or possessing the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance met Saturday with the Vatican’s No. 2 official amid tensions over the U.S. crackdown on migrants ...

While Francis stacked the ranks with his cardinals, it is not necessarily the case that all of them will want to see the ...

or the Vatican’s governing hierarchy, and to shore up its many budget shortfalls. Francis’ initiative was bold: He was essentially betting that donors would be happy to openly fund church ...

VATICAN CITY — A conclave to elect a successor ... year papacy to bring in new points of views of the Catholic Church hierarchy. Many have spent little or no time in Rome getting to know their ...

Massa traces this strain in American Catholicism back to what’s been called the “comic opera heresy” of a fellow Jesuit, ...