The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the ...

Deepening unity among Catholics will be the greatest challenge facing the next pope, who will be elected as early as ...

"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of ...

Notre Dame Provost John McGreevy said he expects some tension between the Vatican and the White House over immigration and ...

Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost has gone by “Bob” for most of his life. On Thursday, the 69-year-old became Pope Leo ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

The Catholic Church said priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

A new law signed by Democratic Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson poses a danger to religious liberty and a sacred trust of ...

Will cardinals continue Pope Francis' progressive ways or will they turn back the clock in favor of traditionalists?