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 ...

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 ...

Vatican News published a photo of the white-robed pope kneeling before Francis's marble tomb at the basilica in central Rome, ...

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

From Vatican News Archbishop Timothy Broglio, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, expresses joy ...

The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a ...

Over in the Apostolic Palace - now unsealed - Robert Prevost held a moment of private prayer. Then, for the first time, he re ...

The new pontiff, who was chosen as leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday (May 8), has travelled extensively in Asia where ...

Pope Leo XIV 's choice of name signals a commitment to social justice that is very much in line with the late Pope Francis ' ...

In the summer of 1973, the war was still raging in Vietnam, the Watergate scandal was unfolding in Washington, and protests ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first person from the United States to lead the Catholic Church, is taking on a financial headache in his ...