White smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel at 6:09 p.m. Rome time on Thursday, signaling that the College of ...

Pope Leo XIV has said little publicly about a place in the Catholic Church for gay and transgender people. Some thought the ...

Pope Leo XIV addresses Vatican crowd as new leader of the Catholic Church. King Charles marks 80 years since Nazi defeat in Europe. Bill Gates pledges to give away his billions. Plus: David ...

The hopeful case is that the new Holy Father will come prepared to tackle two major challenges for the church: its rickety ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis brought Robert Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets ...

From the Marquette University campus to the bell tower at Old St. Mary's Church downtown, Milwaukee celebrated the election ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost – now known as Pope Leo XIV — is the first pope from the United States. The 69-year-old from ...

World leaders on Thursday (May 8) welcomed the election of Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, who becomes the first ...

About 24 hours after the conclave started, the world was introduced to the Catholic Church’s new pope. Pope Leo XIV, the first American to hold the role, was elected less than two years after becoming ...

F ather Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago ...

The sports loyalties of Pope Leo XIV became a topic of conversation almost as soon as the white smoke emerged from the ...

The longest conclave since the 20th century began took 14 rounds of balloting across five days, ending with the election of ...