The late pontiff’s health concerns in recent years led to contenders to succeed him foreseeing a papabile ahead of his death ...

LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, a Wisconsin native who once led the La Crosse Diocese, has emerged as a potential, though unlikely, candidate to become the next pope following the ...

Wisconsin ties will vote in the papal conclave. None are likely candidates to become the next pope, but nothing is certain.

American Cardinals Joseph Tobin and Raymond Burke could be candidates to lead the Catholic Church after the death of Pope ...

Priests and new converts to the Roman Catholic Church cited numerous reasons for why young Americans in their 20s and 30s are ...

As news of Pope Francis’s passing ripples around the world, West Virginians mourn his death and reflect on his legacy, ...

"In terms of legacy, he leaves some very big shoes to fill," journalist John Allen Jr. said Monday about Pope Francis.

To certain traditional Catholic ears, the pontiff from Buenos Aires was cause for concern. To more worldly ears, he was cause ...

One of those 19 'popeable' candidates was Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, the archbishop of St. Louis from 2004 to 2008.

Weeks after a lengthy hospital stay, Pope Francis died at 88 on Easter Monday. Now the search for a new pope begins. Has an ...

However, only 138 of the 253 cardinals will be able to serve as electors in the next conclave and no cardinals over the age ...

Francis inherited a deeply divided Church after the resignation in 2013 of his predecessor, Benedict XVI. The ...