Pope Leo XIV, the 69-year-old Chicago-born cardinal elected as the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, spent many years as a ...

White smoke wafted from a Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that the 133 cardinals inside had elected a new pope to lead the ...

The Southern Baptist Convention is still the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, despite losing more than a ...

The 133 cardinals in the papal conclave held their first day of meetings behind heavy wooden doors, sworn to secrecy, and ...