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 world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics. The identity of the new pontiff is ...

The 133 cardinals in the papal conclave held their first day of meetings behind heavy wooden doors and sworn to secrecy, closed to the world in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, to elect a new pontiff ...

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