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Ross Douthat, a Times Opinion columnist, hosted an online conversation with Michael Brendan Dougherty, a senior writer at ...

Two years ago Pope Francis chose Prevost to replace Marc Ouellet as prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Bishops, handing ...

The Catholic Church has elected its first American pope in history: Cardinal Robert Prevost. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Catholic feminist writer Debra Maria Flint has criticised the absence of women at the forthcoming Papal Conclave and called for the creation of lay women cardinals with voting rights at future synods.

Four frontrunners have emerged as the most likely contenders known as papabile to succeed Pope Francis but at least a dozen ...

Four frontrunners have emerged as the most likely contenders known as papabile to succeed Pope Francis but at least a dozen others are in strong contention ...

The new Pope Leo XIV is no stranger to Ireland, with at least one of his priestly pals sure that he will visit again as ...

The expectation is that the new Pope will continue the work of Francis in a different guise, and his name signifies this. Leo ...

Robert F. Prevost, 69, was a longshot selection with extensive missionary experience in Peru and an approach similar to Pope ...

Fr Tony Finn says that the new Pope loved his visits to Ireland - including one to Cork in 2007 - and he has no doubt that ...