An Omaha native now reports in the Holy See. She's been in Rome since 2016 and has had the opportunity to cover the recent ...

American Robert Prevost was elected as Pope Leo XIV, receiving support from the Most Rev. Oscar A. Solis of Salt Lake City.

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 ...

VATICAN CITY] White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday (May 8), signalling that cardinals ...

The Vatican is the world's smallest country, ruled by the Pope, with its own laws, bank, and army. Formed in 1929, it holds ...

Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s office ...

Deepening unity among Catholics will be the greatest challenge facing the next pope, who will be elected as early as ...

Even former President Barack Obama congratulated the new pope as a “fellow Chicagoan.” He wrote: “This is a historic day for ...

With no candidate securing the necessary two-thirds majority, or 89 votes, the world will need to wait longer for a new ...

As the papal conclave gets underway in Vatican City, Holy Cross Catholic Church pastor Father Noah Carter recalls his experience studying there as a seminarian during the 2013 election of Pope Francis ...

What will Pope Leo XIV do? Will he continue the policies of Pope Francis or take the Catholic church in another direction?

As Pope Leo XIV stepped out in front of cheering crowds outside of St. Peter’s Basilica to give his first speech as head of ...