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 ...

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

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

As a U.S. citizen, the man formerly called Cardinal Robert Prevost technically is required to file returns to the IRS.

Pope Leo XIV is registered to vote in the United States and has previously voted in some Republican primaries, but he is not ...

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

Pope Leo XIV held his first meeting with cardinals since his May 8 election and offered a glimpse into his vision for the ...

Born as Robert Francis Prevost in 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, Pope Leo XIV grew up in a devout Catholic family in the Midwest.

Cardinals elected Leo to the supreme pontificate on Thursday afternoon, with white smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel ...

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...

Prevost, a 69 member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. He appeared on the loggia of St. Peter’s ...