A lot of my friends are calling it the Villanova Vatican,” said Caroline Pirtle, a Villanova University junior who interned at the Vatican this semester and just returned home to Minneapolis Thursday ...

Prelates who voted in the conclave played down the new pope’s American roots. In his first Mass as pontiff, Leo pledged to ...

Eagle-eyed fans spotted Harry Styles in the massive crowd at the Vatican greeting Pope Francis’ successor, Pope Leo XIV, on ...

People used to say that only Richard Nixon could go to China, so maybe only an American Pope can act as a moral check on the ...

White smoke from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday signaled that the cardinals have selected the next leader of the Catholic ...