Ten U.S. cardinals are among those who will gather in Rome to elect a successor to Pope Francis, who died Monday.

Pope Francis, Latin America’s first pontiff, died at age 88 after a cerebral stroke. Francis stressed humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset with scandal.

The news that Leo XIV will convene a consistory for Jan. 7-8 has not yet been made official by the Holy See Press Office. Since the Register broke the news, however, numerous confirmations have ...

Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis' more questionable financial reforms and decisions, canceling a law Monday that had concentrated financial power in the Vatican bank. Leo ...

Pope Leo XIV met in a private audience with Jesuit Father James Martin at the Vatican on Monday. Father Martin, who is in Rome to lead a Jubilee pilgrimage for his LGBTQ ministry, Outreach, also had ...

The pope was admitted to hospital on February 14 where he is fighting a complex respiratory infection and pneumonia in both lungs.