The United States is home to 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That's more than any other nation except Italy, home to 17 of the electors who will gather at the Vatican’s ...

Pope Leo XIV, an American and a global citizen, can be a strong advocate for the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of ...

On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pope, Leo XIV.

In 1274, at the Second Council of Lyons, Pope Gregory X, in a document titled Ubi ... part of the ritual introduced when Pope Benedict XVI was elected, which confirms the smoke is white and ...

Pope Leo XIV says he chose the name in honor of Leo XIII, connecting his predecessor’s focus on workers during the industrial ...

Like the other ceremonies and traditions that accompany the advent of a new pope, his newly chosen name will be imbued with centuries of Catholic history and dissected for its many layers of meaning.

Pope Benedict XVI had made Burke a cardinal in 2010 ... ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick before becoming bishop of Dallas in 2007. Pope Francis tapped Gregory to lead the Archdiocese of Washington in ...

Eighteen days after Pope Francis last appeared on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, his successor -- the 267th pope -- emerged.

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the revelation of the new pontiff’s baptismal name, in Latin, followed by his papal ...

Latest news and live updates as the election process for the next pope continues. The cardinals met for their first conclave ...

in honor of Pope Gregory I, commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great (590-604). The last to use that name was Gregory XVI in 1831. Benedict has been chosen 16 times, including by Francis ...