The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal ...

Vatican City — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

When still a cardinal, the new pope led discussions on key issues facing the church during which “every voice had equal value ...

A group of 48 people from Luzerne and Lackawanna counties traveling with Scranton agency TravelWorld arrived in Vatican City ...

Starting July 1, the Catholic churches that serve Rome and Lee Center will merge into a single parish. Church leaders said ...

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.