St. Thomas students have one eye on their textbooks and another on the Sistine Chapel where the College of Cardinals is ...

Who will be the next pope? 133 cardinals have started the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope ...

While younger cardinals are busy choosing the new pope, older cardinals are mostly waiting it out like the rest of us ...

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

Dark horse’ American cardinal succeeds Pope Francis to become 267th Pontiff - Prevost, 69, will be know as Pope Leo XIV ...

VENICE – Most Rev. Frank J. Dewane, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Venice, asked that members of the Diocese join him in prayer for Pope Leo XIV – referred to as the Successor of St. Peter – as the ...

In Detroit, traditionalist Catholics were bracing for a crackdown. The promise of change in Rome offers them a sliver of hope ...

blows inside an amphora containing holy oil during a Chrism Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Pope Francis arrives at the end ...

The first American to head the Catholic Church in its 2,000 year history is plenty familiar with Philly and Delaware County.

Robert Francis Prevost has been named as the first American to serve as the Pope. He has been elected as Pope Leo XIV and ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals wrapped up their pre-conclave meetings Tuesday, trying to identify a possible new pope who could ...