Should the current standards of secrecy around papal conclaves continue? Or should it be tweaked or even done away with? The Register contacted 170 bishops in the United States as well as Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV's church is growing steadily, but its believers are no longer concentrated on the continent where it was born.

Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

Cardinal Stephen Chow, 65, the bishop of Hong Kong, was the only Chinese cardinal to vote in the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV.

Tens of thousands of well-wishers gathered for Leo XIV's inaugural mass at the Vatican, which sees him formally take up his ...

“The only smoke that worked out in their favor was the cigar smoke they had at their receptions,” said Christopher White, the ...

Omaha native Blase Cupich is back in the States after attending the conclave in Rome last week. He's one of the 251 cardinals in the world. Cupich spent six years working with Robert Prevost, who's ...

Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis’ ...