Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, former Vatican secretary of state, receives the gifts offered by a group of young people while ...

From Spain to Rwanda, from Ecuador to the United ... Mass began in St. Peter's Square, a group of teenage girls from Madrid, wearing hoodies and jeans and Spanish flags draped over their backs ...

Protesters organized by Resistencia en Acción in New Jersey gathered on May 1 to express concerns about U.S. immigration ...

CHICLAYO, PERU — In this northern coastal city between Lima and the Ecuador border ... the colors of the Italian flag, joined the masses in St. Peter’s Square to welcome the new pope.

The first Masses in Chicago after Leo’s election come as the South Side native delivered his own first Sunday address in St. Peter's Square ... the yellow and white flags of the Vatican and ...

For thousands of young teens who traveled to Rome for the Jubilee of Teenagers, the announcement of Pope Francis' death came ...

Gustavo Molina, a young man from Quito, Ecuador, said the news of the pope's passing ... Via della Conciliazione -- that led to a jam-packed St. Peter's Square. Many waving flags, singing and ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, seated beneath Michelangelo’s monumental fresco of the Last Judgement, buried his head in his hands as the sound of his name echoed off the walls of the Sistine Chapel.

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.