"There are going to be hard choices along the way," the president said.

Few Catholics, and even fewer Jesuits, ever imagined there would be a Jesuit pope.

On the final day of the conclave, Twitter reported 130,000 tweets per minute.

Cheers of “Francesco! Francesco! Francesco!” resounded throughout the square.

Cardinal Francis has become the first pope in 600 years to receive his predecessor’s blessing.

As the Roman Catholic Church begins, at this writing, a conclave to elect a new pope, Catholics in the United States tend to view the scandal over sexual abuse by members of the clergy as the most important problem facing their church today. According to a nationwide survey conducted by the Pew Rese