Hints as to what postures Pope Leo XIV might take on some of the most controversial issues roiling the U.S. may come from his ...

The brother of Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, said the newly elected pontiff will likely follow in the late Pope Francis’s ...

Pope Leo XIV's papal name has a storied history — and stretches all the way back to the year 440. Here's what it could say ...

The newly elected Pope Leo VIX is from Dolton, a Chicago Southwest suburb. Throughout Thursday, people all over Chicago ...

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

The sports loyalties of Pope Leo XIV became a topic of conversation almost as soon as the white smoke emerged from the ...

Pope Leo XIV has dual citizenship, having become a citizen of Peru in 2015. Peruvians in Paterson proudly assert that for ...

“I’m ecstatic,” said Alec Maddox, 32, a consultant who lives in San Diego, although he and his two brothers, Tommy, 30, and ...

Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches, cheered from classrooms and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, left, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's ...

Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost became the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and ...

The local religious leader said he was surprised to see the historic election of an American pope ...