Thursday morning white smoke steamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, indicating a new pope was selected by the palpal ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Mass on Friday after his historic election as the first North American pope, meeting with ...

As soon as white smoke was seen rising over the Italian capital, signaling the selection of a new pope, people began rushing ...

Follow our live blog coverage of Pope Leo XIV’s electionVatican City: Cardinal Robert Prevost, a US-born missionary and ...

New American pontiff Robert Prevost to hold first Mass after historic election - The 69-year-old former cardinal was chosen ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first American leader of the Catholic Church. Here's what you need to know about the new pontiff.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has become the first-ever American elected as the leader of the Catholic Church -- now known by his pontifical name of Pope Leo XIV. The 69-year-old, born on the ...

The new pontiff urged people to "build bridges through dialogue, through encounter, to come together as one people, always in ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

People used to say that only Richard Nixon could go to China, so maybe only an American Pope can act as a moral check on the ...