Pope Leo XIV said his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass and details began to ...

A Roman Catholic priest has welcomed the election of the new Pope, Leo XIV, and labelled him the "people's Pope". Father ...

Born in the Windy City in 1955 to parents of Spanish and Franco-Italian descent, Prevost served as an altar boy and was ...

Pope Leo XIV has said he hopes that his election can help the Catholic Church bring light to the "dark nights of this world" ...

The Pope is expected to visit the other papal basilicas in Rome in the following days, including Santa Maria Maggiore, where ...

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the first American pope in history and will be known as Pope Leo XIV. There has never ...

A new ring is made for each pope, as when one of them dies their ring is traditionally destroyed, but this piece of jewellery ...

Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as pontiff at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on May 9, the day after stunning the world as the first pope from the United States in the Church's history.

Speakers blasted songs including Born In The USA and American Pie as six cardinal electors from the United States gathered in ...

Leo XIV 'is a citizen of the world,' Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York underlined, and 'where he came from is secondary' to ...

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first US-born pontiff, the memes, doctored images, and ...