The 19th-century pope refused to endorse either the capitalists’ wait-and-see promise of progress or the communists’ longing ...

As the United States of America approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, the country has achieved something many ...

The next pope will join a storied list of past leaders of the Holy See, with the first pope of the 20th century being elected 147 years ago.

One thing is certain, however: There will not be another pope like Francis. Whatever one’s opinion of him, he changed the face of the Catholic Church. What remains to be seen is whether his changes ...

I don't envy Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV. He inherits a modern tradition of Catholic social teaching ill-suited to the 21st century.

Pope Francis is silhouetted at the end of a ... badly needed — a man who saw clearly that a new century had dawned and that the world had evolved. He pushed a massive institution to evolve ...

and cardinals may have thought the 21st century world order could handle a U.S.-born pope. Francis, history's first Latin American pope, clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw him as ...

Pope Francis appointed a significant number of cardinals from the Global South. Among the 135 cardinals currently eligible to ...

How long does it take to choose a pope? In this case, only two days. The Vatican doesn’t publish official data on the number ...

Ten years ago, during the Armenian genocide's centenary mass, Pope Francis acknowledged it as the "first genocide of the twentieth century," quoting the 2001 declaration by Pope John Paul II and ...

In a process that can last days, weeks, or even years, popes are elected by cardinals under strict oaths of silence.