Pope Leo XIV is celebrating his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel with the cardinals who elected him as the first ...

Pope Leo XIV's Creole heritage highlights complex history of racism and the church in America - The election of Pope Leo XIV, ...

But many people in the square looked puzzled at first, and the complete lack of phone coverage meant that most couldn't look ...

The Pope is expected to visit the other papal basilicas in Rome in the following days, including Santa Maria Maggiore, where ...

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential ...

The still-open wounds from decades of clerical sexual abuse, along with the growing power of far-right Catholics in Trump’s ...

If the new pope is able to update church teachings on some hot-button issues, it will be because Pope Francis set the stage ...

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

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

After two days of conclave and only four votes, the cardinals selected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the church's next pope.

Chicago-born Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has been elected as pontiff. Here's what's anticipated from his papacy when it ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV brings the Catholic Church closer to the United States in a way it has never been before, but ...