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

The Peru-based Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost makes history as he takes on the name Pope Leo XIV. Disney has announced ...

The still-open wounds from decades of clerical sexual abuse, along with the growing power of far-right Catholics in Trump’s ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

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

The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago will succeed Pope Francis as the leader of the Catholic Church. Prevost, the first ...

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

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Father Gerry Waterman said his Syracuse University congregation erupted when they learned Pope Leo XIV ...

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

The American Robert Prevost has been announced as Pope Leo XIV in front of a crowd of tens of thousands in St Peter’s Square.