Chicago Tribune photographer Brian Cassella captures the scene as Pope Leo XIV is installed in Vatican City. Global dignitaries and faith leaders from around the world gathered in Vatican City on ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

Peace, that wonderful dream with a capital P, full of expectations, cross-cutting attempts, and hopes (especially for Ukraine ...

Then Leo came along. Plagued by the tempests of drugs, murder, corruption and other vices of biblical proportion ...

It is a period of mourning but also one of preparing for what comes next ... them that the future pope will be chosen, and many of the recent cardinals created by Francis have been appointed ...

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Launching his papacy with a call for reconciliation and communion, Pope Leo XIV formally began his ministry as the successor ...