He secured 105 of 133 votes to become the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's ...

The ritual for electing a new pope took social media by storm this week as content creators reacted to the ancient tradition ...

A cute brick house in a south Chicago suburb has been blessed with a substantial bump in value, thanks to Pope Leo.

Cardinal electors begin voting for new pope in Vatican 2025 conclave, as world waits for signal of white smoke.

Msgr. Rick Hilgartner, with the Archdiocese of Baltimore, reflects on the significance of the first North American pope.

The inauguration Mass on May 18 will be the formal installation ceremony where Pope Leo XIV will receive the Fisherman’s Ring and the pallium as symbols of his papal office. The “taking possession” ...

As tens of thousands of people gathered in Rome to watch Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV make his first introduction to the world, Milwaukee Catholics rejoiced at a mass at the Cathedral of St. John the ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Travis Austin is a graduate student at UW-Madison working on his Master of Public Affairs. He is from the ...

A lot of my friends are calling it the Villanova Vatican,” said Caroline Pirtle, a Villanova University junior who interned at the Vatican this semester and just returned home to Minneapolis Thursday ...

While they’ve had some successes — notably, they bested traditional polls at predicting Donald Trump’s 2024 election win — the market for betting on the next pope was blindsided by the conclave’s ...

The president of Villanova University shared that he had asked the new pope, a '77 Villanova grad, if he'd come back to speak at commencement.