Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff, was elected May 8. His selection came as a surprise to some church leaders, ...

The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...

The world has got the new pope! Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has become the first American to be ...

Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass and ...

Overnight, Chicago was thrust into the spotlight when one of its own was named by the Vatican as the first pope from America, ...

As pope, Leo XIV will speak to the world as both pastor and teacher. But he should not speak in the idiom of politics or polemics | Opinion ...

The U.S. now has two top-level leaders on the global stage — and there is evidence to suggest Pope Leo XIV will cut a stark ...

In his first mass as the new leader of the Catholic Church on Friday, Pope Leo XIV warned that losing one’s faith can have ...

When the white smoke billowed out from a chimney on May 8, announcing that the papal conclave had chosen a new pope, the ...

Very human, very humble, but very discerning.” This is how Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle described then Cardinal Robert Francis ...

It was by chance that Spencer Pearson found himself in Rome during a papal conclave — and even more serendipitous that, on ...

The new Pope, Leo XIV, has called in his first Mass at the Vatican for the Catholic Church to "desperately" counter a lack of ...