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

Pope Leo XIV is the first American leader of the Catholic Church. Here's what you need to know about the new pontiff.

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

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

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

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

ABC News’ Linsey Davis reports on the significance of Pope Leo XIV’s name and what it hints at for the future of his papacy.

Known as Father Bob, Prevost was announced as Pope Leo XIV on Thursday after less than 25 hours of voting in the Sistine ...

World leaders have congratulated Pope Leo XIV, the first American to be elected Pope. After two days of voting, the Papal ...

The late Pope Francis brought the 69-year-old to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

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