It has long been an unwritten rule of the Catholic Church that no citizen of a world superpower can be pope. The informal ...

One Erie bishop met the new pope almost a decade ago in Rome. Another bishop with local ties is going to Pope Leo XIV's ...

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Survivors say the new pontiff must urgently improve on Pope Francis’s complicated legacy by committing to transparency and ...

Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman Catholic Church might take. By The New York Times A new Roman Catholic ...

Catholic Cardinals elected a new pope on the second day of the conclave signaling a new era for the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV, the first person from the United States to lead the Catholic Church, is taking on a financial headache in his ...

Pope Leo XIV's election marks a historic moment: the first pope from an English-speaking country, and the first from the ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV met Thursday at the Vatican with the head of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, in one of his first audiences as pontiff that reaffirmed his appeal for a peaceful, ...

The new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, has celebrated his first mass, within 24 hours of being chosen by ...