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. Catholic Church A local newspaper, The Boston Globe, had ...

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

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

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.

President Donald Trump reacted to the selection of the new pope and leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday.

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

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

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