Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, has spent much of his life outside the United States.

Cardinal Prevost was elected pontiff on the second day of the conclave, becoming the leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.

As the conclave to find Pope Francis’ successor continues, the cardinals are not eating gourmet food amid their sequestered ...

It was a slow, languid summer day in 2007 when Ted Seides settled in behind the desk in his swish corner office on the 15th ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

One of the most celebrated magazine editors of his generation, Graydon Carter grew up in Ottawa an unlikely success.

The 70-year-old veteran diplomat was Francis’ secretary of state ... structures to correct the deep and growing gap between the rich and poor,” he wrote. But also like Francis and other church leaders ...

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Movement-backed Mayor Brandon Johnson and a record class of progressive alders took office exactly two years ago. I spoke ...

It meant that young men would be fighting and ... were never brought to justice. Rebels had opposed what they called "a rich man's war" but "a poor man's fight." Trevor Paulhus “I think it ...

“Now, as to the young men. You must not wait to be brought ... That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.