The world's 1.4 billion Catholics have a new pope, Leo XIV. But the church he now leads is far from unified. What does the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and ...

Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman ...

In a landmark ruling, it was one of thousands of pages of documents that a Boston court ordered the Catholic Church to release. Image source, Catholic Church A local newspaper, The Boston Globe ...

Robert Prevost of the U.S. is the new Catholic pontiff, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. The Chicago-born cardinal ministered in ...

Students at a Catholic elementary school in Dorchester not only witnessed the election of a new pope, but also got to learn<a ...

As cardinals prepare to meet to select the next pope, many are wondering what stance his successor will take on social issues ...

Robert F. Prevost, 69, was a longshot selection with extensive missionary experience in Peru and an approach similar to Pope ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

For American Catholics, the elevation of Robert Prevost to the papacy was a shock, a cause for celebration and a chance for ...

For the Catholic Church, no aspect of Pope Francis' record is more sensitive or contentious than his handling of the sexual ...

For Catholic theologians, the significance of the name was evident, with the new pope tying himself to one of the ...