On Friday, we said goodbye in a fitting home-going service for Rev. Dr. Gus Roman, a spiritual and civil rights leader who ...

The Samnites were Italic tribes that migrated from Central Europe to the mountainous south-central region of Italy in the 9th ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful ...

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Pope Leo XIV, the day after his election, decided to temporarily retain the current heads of the offices of the Roman Curia ...

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Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

Some critics of the process, including traditionalists who defend an all-male clerical hierarchy ... Povoledo is a Times reporter based in Rome, covering Italy, the Vatican and the culture ...

The cardinals had returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope and crowds flocked back to St.