Chicagoans celebrated the rise of one of their own to the papacy, including those in the city’s strong Irish-American ...

Pope Leo XIV’s first phone call with his brother after he was elected the first American pontiff was caught live by a ...

American Robert Francis Prevost's decision to choose Leo XIV as his papal name hints at the "social" brand he intends to give ...

The Pope is expected to visit the other papal basilicas in Rome in the following days, including Santa Maria Maggiore, where ...

POPE LEO XIV will celebrate Mass this morning for the first time since becoming the new head of the Catholic Church.

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 brings the Catholic Church closer to the United States in a way it has never been before, but ...

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

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

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

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

After two days of conclave and only four votes, the cardinals selected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the church's next pope.