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

He is a person that has a world view that is global and that’s really what the church needs,” said Father Kevin Storey, with ...

Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago but spent two decades as a missionary in Peru, said a few words in English before ...

When still a cardinal, the new pope led discussions on key issues facing the church during which “every voice had equal value ...

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney in Vatican City Thursday as the world gathered to watch a new pope take ...

Pope Francis brought Robert Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, one of the most important jobs ...

FROM a budding maths genius in the US to an adventurous missionary in Peru – horse riding Pope Leo XIV has now reached the ...

"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong also wrote to the new pope to congratulate him.

The new pontiff, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, was elected on Thursday as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic ...

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.