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

When Jorge Bergoglio chose the name Francis upon becoming pope, it was a tribute to his favorite saint. Others took ...

Weeks after Pope Francis death, Trump laughed off questions about AI-generated photo of him as pope. His dismissal comes on ...

As cardinals gather in Rome this week to select the next pope, global news networks covering every twist and turn will be ...

May the next pope walk the path Francis helped illuminate—with humility, courage, and the conviction that faith must always serve justice.

Jorge Bergoglio was 76 when he became Pope Francis. His predecessor, Joseph Ratzinger, was 78 when he became Pope Benedict ...

What the world’s Indigenous Catholics don’t want to lose with the death of the first pontiff from the Southern Hemisphere: ...

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

G.K. Chesterton wrote of St. Francis of Assisi, “But after all, this man was a man and not half a dozen men. What seems ...

The United States is the home country for 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope, including Omaha native ...

For most of the Catholic Church's first millennium, popes used their given names. The first exception was the 6th century ...

Mistakes were made, apparently. ‘Woe be unto the person who decided to do it the way that they did it,’ one expert says.