Boston Catholics are joining the faithful around the world in celebrating the election of the first American-born pope.

The election of Leo, the Catholic Church's first American pope, is drawing a mixed response from groups often at odds with ...

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

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...

Massachusetts Catholics and political leaders took a moment to recognize new Pope Leo XIV after Cardinal Robert Prevost was ...

Ahead of the 2013 conclave to replace Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan was tipped to restore the papal hat ...

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.

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

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

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the ...