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

Before his election, the former Cardinal Robert Prevost spoke clearly on synodality, Church unity, sexual morality, and the ...

American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost’s election as Pope Leo XIV marks a new chapter in the Catholic papacy, which dates ...

Fox News Digital spoke with everyday Catholics to get their expectations for the next pope and their reflections on Pope ...

Pope Leo XIV has already made history, as the first-ever American-born pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church. But how might ...

As cardinals gather to elect Pope Francis’ successor, they are facing debates over whether the church most needs change or ...

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Chicago-born Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has been elected as pontiff. Here's what's anticipated from his papacy when it ...

Pope Leo XIV has been described as a potential bridge-builder for a divided Catholic Church, likely to pursue parts of his ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in others such as abortion, and made inroads with Muslims and ...

Pope Leo XIV has already made history, as the first-ever American-born pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church. But how might ... of his stances on certain issues. At a 2023 Vatican news conference ...

lesbian and transgender people feel more welcome in the Catholic church and advised Francis on the issue. He says Francis himself changed the church, but so did the many LGBTQ Catholics who have ...