Because of the pope’s role to maintain the fullness of tradition and the unity of the Church, a pope cannot be conservative or liberal in a political sense.
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Robert Francis Prevost, from Chicago, is the first ever pope from the US.
Leo XIV will work to translate the ideal of one heart, one mind into structures that protect the vulnerable worker, the displaced migrant and the wounded planet.
Smoke will tell us when a new pope has been elected by the papal conclave. Here’s what to look out for.
Becoming pope was a big deal for a cardinal and his family. Leading candidates known as papabili (pope-ables) began strategizing and negotiating even before a pontiff died.
In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis connected the dots between growth, consumption, poverty and climate breakdown.
A personal reflection on the papacy of Francis I.
For centuries, the role has gone to a member of the College of Cardinals – and almost always to an Italian. Might we soon have our first pope from Asia or Africa?
Latin America was core to Pope Francis’ theology. As pope he made significant contributions to the region.
The conclave – one of the most secretive processes in Christendom – is rooted in centuries of tradition.
Women now hold several high-level administrative roles in the Catholic church but not everyone is on board.
Holding a conclave to elect a pope is a tradition that goes back centuries.
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, a day after greeting crowds at St Peter’s Square. From the very start of his papacy, he seemed determined to do things differently.
Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced. 10 years ago, his encyclical, Laudato Si’, was published. This environmental text sought to move the Catholic Church and its concern with the Earth back into a leading role.
US college leaders would do well to reflect on the courage of their counterparts in 1980s El Salvador who opposed injustice despite grave personal risk.
The Catholic Church opposes assisted suicide and euthanasia, but it also doesn’t support treatments that prolong suffering in the face of unavoidable death.
Pope Francis transformed the church from an institution in which a few called the shots to a church of the people of God.
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before.
A group of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution were canonised by Pope Francis on December 18.
The conclave, shrouded in centuries-old tradition and secrecy, stands as one of the most captivating rituals in the Catholic Church.
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