The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, previously known as Robert Francis Prevost before yesterday, has already been to Hungary at least once ...

PRRI combined U.S. Census and MIT Election Lab data from 3,142 counties to estimate local religious demographics. Among Bay ...

The member churches of MEÖT "hold Pope Leo XIV in our prayers" and trust that the new pontiff "will carry on intra-church ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signaling that no pope had been ...

On the morning of May 7 the conclave will commence, with all the cardinals present, with the Holy Mass for the Election of ...

Taking the estimated number of Catholics in a country and dividing them by the number of cardinal-electors gives some idea of ...

The archbishop is a standard-bearer for those in the church who favor a return to traditional rules and doctrine after Pope ...

Three days ahead of the start of the conclave, the cardinals took the morning off from the general congregation meetings and, ...

Cardinal Erdö stressed that today the church must first address the question of its own mission. Tradition makes alive and ...

In the coming days, cardinals will converge in the Vatican to choose the next head of the Catholic Church ... old archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest and primate ofHungary, considered one of the foremost ...

Pope Francis, who has died aged 88 after 12 years at the head of the Catholic Church, was probably the ... outside the basilica for the traditional Roman Catholic prayer, the Angelus.