There will only be smoke rising from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel if it is white - which means a successor has been ...

Robert Prevost is originally from Chicago, where he served as an altar boy and was ordained as a priest in 1982.

Pope Leo XIV has said little publicly about a place in the Catholic Church for gay and transgender people. Some thought the ...

F ather Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago ...

The electors cast paper ballots, and voting continues until one candidate receives a two-thirds majority, or 89 votes. After ...

The longest conclave since the 20th century began took 14 rounds of balloting across five days, ending with the election of ...

Cardinal Prevost, named as Pope Leo XIV, has previously shared an article from his X account in 2015 criticising Trump’s ...

It signals that a new pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church. The news means the winner secured at least 89 votes ...

SCHIAVON, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV’ s choice of name signals a commitment to social justice which is very much in line with ...

The sports loyalties of Pope Leo XIV became a topic of conversation almost as soon as the white smoke emerged from the ...

Peruvians were elated Thursday after a Catholic cardinal who spent years guiding the faithful in the South American country ...

The 69-year-old will become Leo XIV as he succeeds the late Pope Francis, who brought the Peruvian-American to the Vatican ...