Pope Leo XIV, who left his Chicago home as a teenager for a life of missionary work in Peru, is a man of the world who ...

The College of Cardinals on Thursday elected Cardinal Robert Prevost from Chicago as the Catholic Church’s next pope. Leo XIV ...

White smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling to the world that the conclave had concluded. Before the ...

There have been a plethora of questions swirling regarding the conclave process — such as why certain cardinals opt to wear ...

Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new pope has been elected.