Ten U.S. cardinals are among those who will gather in Rome to elect a successor to Pope Francis, who died Monday.

Ten U.S. cardinals are among those who will gather in Rome to elect a successor to Pope Francis, who died Monday.

In a 2024 meeting with Syro-Malabar Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil of Ernakulam-Angamaly, Pope Francis summed up his view ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and ...

On March 13, 2013, Francis succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, who was the first pope to retire in six centuries. Francis became the ...

John Paul II was also the first non-Italian pope since ... though the Vandals took it over later. Pope Gregory I was the Catholic leader who in the late 500s stylized "Gregorian Chant" – a ...

The first Latin American and Jesuit pope was determined to lead a more welcoming, pastoral and merciful Church outward to a ...

Later, he became the archbishop of Buenos Aires, and in 2001, Pope John Paul II created him a cardinal ... and the first born outside Europe since Pope Gregory III (who was born in Syria and ...

World leaders, cardinals and at least 200,000 of the faithful are expected to gather in the Vatican on Saturday morning to ...

The first pope was St. Peter ... to be an antipope and replaced in less than a year by Nicholas II. Following Gregory and Benedict, there have been 14 Clements, 13 Innocents, 13 Leos, and 12 ...

John Paul II apologized to groups wronged by Catholics ... during the 13th century lasted almost three years before Pope Gregory X was selected. Fox News' Alec Schemmel contributed reporting.

Gregory was first appointed to lead the Archdiocese of Atlanta on Dec. 9, 2004, by Pope Saint John Paul II and installed on Jan. 17, 2005. Gregory held the position for 11 years before Pope ...