At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

The Catholic Church has entered a new historic era with the election of American-Peruvian Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th ...

The pre-conclave favorite, Italy’s Pietro Parolin had a good number of preferences in the first two votes, but his support ...

A Chicago-based group filed complaints about him with Vatican officials, claiming Cardinal Robert Prevost fell short in his responses to allegations of abuse in there and in Peru Access articles from ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...