The conclave to choose the new pope is underway. And among the cardinals choosing the new Catholic leader is an Ohio native.

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

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

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 ...

A papal conclave is set to begin in Vatican City starting May 7, during which cardinals from around the world will elect the ...

Harry Styles was among the many spectators that gathered in Vatican City to watch Pope Leo XIV, formerly Robert Francis Prevost, assume his new role as leader of the Catholic Church.

Francis, the first Latin American pope, clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw him as his heir apparent. He sent ...

As the leader of Vatican City, he is the head of a sovereign nation. But maintaining dual citizenship as a foreign head of ...

The next pope will inherit a soaring deficit and culture of financial malpractice that Francis tried and failed to solve even ...

Cardinal Prevost was elected pontiff on the second day of the conclave, becoming the leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.

An invitation has already been extended to Pope Leo XIV to attend this year’s COP30 U.N. climate conference in Brazil.

As the conclave to elect the next pope begins, Pietro Parolin has emerged as the betting favorite to succeed Pope Francis, ...