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

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

At Sunday Mass, the landmark, Gothic-style church - the focal point of Catholicism in the most populous U.S. city - was ...

"Where he comes from is sort of now a thing of the past," said New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who had been President Donald Trump's pick for pope. "Robert Francis Prevost is no longer around.