The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

Charles Warner, who left a biomedical engineering career to pursue priesthood, helped distribute Holy Communion at Pope ...

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

Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s office ...

With no candidate securing the necessary two-thirds majority, or 89 votes, the world will need to wait longer for a new ...

As Pope Leo XIV stepped out in front of cheering crowds outside of St. Peter’s Basilica to give his first speech as head of ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

In a letter to Rabbi Noam Marans of the American Jewish Committee, Pope Leo XIV expressed his intention to strengthen ...

An Omaha native now reports in the Holy See. She's been in Rome since 2016 and has had the opportunity to cover the recent ...

All eyes are on Vatican City Tuesday with just over a day to go until the start of the papal conclave to elect the 267th pope ...

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

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