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

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 Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests is calling for the new pope to impose a zero-tolerance policy.

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

Pope Leo will be tasked with tackling the Vatican's estimated £70 million debt while hoping to navigate an increasingly ...

The 69-year-old chose the papal name Leo XIV, in honor of St. Leo, a fifth-century pontiff known for his devotion to the poor ...

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

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

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

Celebrating Pope Leo XIV and his new spot in the Vatican Church, members of Saint Andrew Catholic Church off 37th Avenue ...