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

Advocates for victims of sex abuse say there needs to be an accounting of how then-Cardinal Robert Prevost handled such cases ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, has this in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy: He's been in positions of ...

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

Survivor groups call election 'an insult', cite past inaction and failed oversight; Vatican maintains no wrongdoing.