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

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago-born missionary, was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic ...

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

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

Father Christopher Brock, chaplain at Bishop McGuiness Catholic High School in Kernersville, says the election of an American ...

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

In Louisiana, a state with strong ties to Catholicism, here's how officials and local dioceses reacted to the news of their ...

The College of Cardinals elected a new pope Thursday, the first from America in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church ...

He had the good papal housekeeping seal of approval from Pope Francis, his predecessor, who put him in one of the top jobs in ...

Cathedral bells tolled in Santa Fe as New Mexicans joined Roman Catholics worldwide in sharing excitement and shock at the election of the first pope from the United States. Cardinal Robert Prevost, ...

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