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

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

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

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.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of ...

Massachusetts residents expressed shock that American-born Robert Francis Prevost will lead the Catholic Church. What they said after his selection ...

The divisions are evident in issues like immigration, same-sex couples, and the role of women in the Church. Read more at ...

Pope Leo XIV has never been accused of abuse, but has been in positions of authority when accusations of sexual abuse have ...

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

Evelyn Morris serves hot dogs at "The Wieners Circle", which displayed a sign outside its restaurant written in Latin that ...

Archbishop of Boston Richard Henning spoke Thursday about Pope Leo XIV being elected to serve as the leader of the Catholic<a ...

First American pontiff takes Catholic Church helm amid increasing global turmoil - The 69-year-old former cardinal was chosen ...