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

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

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

Louis Prevost is still reckoning with what just happened in his family. His little brother, Robert Francis Prevost, is now ...

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

The election of Pope Leo XIV, who is the first U.S. pope and has Creole roots, is raising more awareness about the complexity ...

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, who was born in Chicago but spent two decades as a missionary in Peru, said a few words in English before ...

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

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.

As Pope Leo XIV assumes office, the Catholic faithful in Nigeria have urged him to prioritise uniting a fragmented world.

Leo XIV urged the Catholic Church to counter a lack of faith in his first homily as pope, a day after becoming the first US ...