Pope Leo XIV is celebrating his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel with the cardinals who elected him as the first ...

But many people in the square looked puzzled at first, and the complete lack of phone coverage meant that most couldn't look ...

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential ...

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

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a little known missionary from Chicago, was elected as a surprise choice to be the new leader of the ...

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

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

Vatican reporter Gerard O'Connell, Colleen Dulle and Sam Sawyer, S.J., discuss the unexpectedly quick election of the first ...

After two days of conclave and only four votes, the cardinals selected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the church's next pope.

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