Pope Leo XIV’s American and Peruvian experience offers a compelling moral and economic lens through which to examine the ...

The new pope will preside over an inauguration Mass on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square, according to the Vatican.

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV gave a homily at a Mass a day after he was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. Here's what the new pontiff said, ...

A new pope has been elected, and in a major surprise, an American has been chosen for the first time. Robert Francis Prevost ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

In Louisiana, a state with strong ties to Catholicism, here's how officials and local dioceses reacted to the news of their ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

has been named the new pope of the Catholic Church, USA TODAY reports. The successor to Pope Francis, who will go by the name ...