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The school's students and staff expressed shock and excitement following the recent election of the first-ever American pope.

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The Catholic Church is not dying from persecution. It is dying from confusion. Under Pope Francis, ambiguity became policy.

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

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The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

Plumes of white smoke streaming from a Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday signaled that a new leader of the Roman Catholic ...

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The dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, urged the voters to set aside all personal interests and ...

We’re talking about the legacy of Pope Francis, the challenges facing the church and what’s involved in the real-life ...

Here's when we could see smoke -- and a new pope -- now that the conclave is getting underway in Vatican City.