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.

Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, previously known as Robert Francis Prevost, returned to the ...

As Cardinal Robert Prevost's name was announced, a sound of shock rose up. It was something few people had anticipated — the ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

Robert Francis Prevost, 69, an Augustinian and former bishop in Peru, represents the triumph of continuity — but with the ...

But what’s this we’re hearing about the new American pope, Leo XIV? He voted in Republican primaries in Illinois in 2012, ...

Pope Leo XIV held the first mass of his papacy Friday morning in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel with the cardinals who elected ...

Though Leo XIV is from Chicago, his election to the papacy reflects the move of Christianity toward the Global South.

Cardinal Robert Prevost becomes Pope Leo XIV, first American pope. Nigerian clergy welcome his election, praying for unity, ...

Pope Leo XIV spoke in Italian and then switched to Spanish, recalling his many years spent as a missionary and then ...

The Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford, the Rt Rev John Arnold, has welcomed the election of the first Pope to come from the United States. Bishop Arnold, who remembered the late Pope John Paul II's ...

As the world comes to get to know the new Pope, local Catholics in northern Ontario will begin to hear his name immediately ...