Robert Francis Prevost has become the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. The 69-year-old ...

José Mujica, the charismatic former guerrilla fighter who later went on to lead Uruguay and became known as "the world's ...

Ward 3 Coun. Stephan Kinach and Ward 1 Coun. Sandra Hollingsworth moved a motion that called for the city to restore the ...

The name a new pope chooses is often the first clue to his priorities. The last pope named Leo was Leo XIII, who began his ...

The conclave at the Vatican, where the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church elected a new pope, has ended. The end of the voting was announced by white smoke from a pipe on the roof of the Sistine ...

The Lagos State University Muslim Community has felicitated Catholics on the successful election of a new Pope, describing ...

Today’s MAGA-fied Republicans have entirely forgotten how to govern — or even how to police their own bad behavior.

Twenty-five years ago this week, Russia’s first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin, formally handed over power ...

Was it a symbol? A blessing? A sign ... that my vote is given to the one who before God I think should be elected.” Then the cardinal places the ballot on a plate and slides it into an urn ...

In a historic moment for the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago was elected on May 8, 2025, as ...

The Catholic Church is currently in the process of electing the new Supreme Pontiff, who will succeed the late Pope Francis. The conclave taking place in the Sistine Chapel in the ...