From the moment Pope Leo XIV emerged from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, church observers have sought comparisons between the new, U.S.-born pontiff and his predecessor Pope Francis. Vatican ...

By celebrating together this Nicene faith and by proclaiming it together, we will also advance towards the restoration of full communion among us.” ...

Swedish Cardinal Anders Arborelius said the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV “was first and foremost a unifying experience.

For the longest time, the Catholic Church, particularly the papacy, has been a formidable force in shaping global – and even local – politics. From the Medieval period until today, the papacy in one ...

After all, we are not a 2,000-year-old Church for nothing ... and participate in the Conclave and its preceding general congregations. Even the emeriti – in their 80s and 90s dutifully came to ...

As the world held its collective breath for white smoke at the Vatican to signal the selection of a new Catholic pope, some members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were smugly ...

It was the first conclave NCR would cover in the digital ... ROME — Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church Tuesday after one of the briefest conclaves in modern ...

And so the votes for Parolin, mostly curial members and Catholic moderates ... from the cardinals in the conclave. After so many years of the media presenting the church as divided, the cardinals ...

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church ... of Leo at a conclave, or College of ...