News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

Pope Leo also celebrated Mother’s Day as jubilee bands and thousands of pilgrims created a festive atmosphere in St. Peter’s ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S.

The Rev. John T. Pawlikowski served as co-founder and director of the school’s Catholic-Jewish Studies Program and also ...

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

For the first time in the history of these two preeminent institutions, their chosen leaders share the same nationality.

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel signifying cardinals had elected a new pope to lead the Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

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

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

Biden added that he was pleased to see an American appointed as the Catholic Church’s new leader. Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass at the Sistine Chapel with the College of Cardinals at 11 a.m ...