The last three pontiffs each chose very different paths between Rome and home.

Last week, white smoke from the Vatican signaled that he'd been elected the first North American pope in the history of the ...

Francis’ papacy honored Latin American Catholics killed for their social justice work, a theologian explains – and Leo may ...

I don’t think he’s the kind of man who sends coded messages,” Cardinal Michael Czerny says in this exclusive interview with ...

Pope Leo XIV's election marks a historic moment: the first pope from an English-speaking country, and the first from the ...

Land and environmental defenders in Latin America and around the world ... that it hopes to disarm. The new pope had a close relationship with Francis, whose legacy looms large.

As Pope Leo XIV's past record of handling clergy sexual abuse cases comes under scrutiny, victims of the now-disgraced group ...

A plurality of the Catholic Church is in Latin America, at roughly 40% of the global Catholic population. The election of the Argentinian Pope Francis in 2013 brought fresh hope for a new ...

The Chicago-born pope has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Peru, where he was a missionary and a bishop. | Opinion ...

Pope Francis, who took his name from the patron saint of ecology -- St. Francis of Assisi -- died the day before Earth Day ...

Never again a Jesuit.” These critics worry that another pope from Latin America would mean a continuation of Francis’ pastoral approach to issues like ministering to L.B.G.T.Q. Catholics and ...

For the first time, the majority of cardinals to choose a pope are not from Europe, as Catholic demographics shift. But Europe remains the largest source of cardinals.