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

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

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

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

ABC News’ Linsey Davis reports on the significance of Pope Leo XIV’s name and what it hints at for the future of his papacy.

A new chapter begins for the Catholic Church, as Pope Leo XIV — the first American pontiff — delivers his first mass inside ...

White smoke has emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a new pope has been elected to lead the Roman ...

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

The 69-year-old chose the papal name Leo XIV, in honor of St. Leo, a fifth-century pontiff known for his devotion to the poor ...

Parishioners in St. Augustine expressed a sense of optimism and hope for the new pontiff the morning after the Vatican made ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been named the first American pope of the Catholic Church. What to know about Pope Leo ...

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