American cardinals who participated in the conclave that elected history’s first-ever pope from the United States hailed him ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel, addressing the more than 1.4 billion members of the Catholic Church he now leads.

Pope Leo XIV gave his first mass on Friday to cardinals in the Sistine Chapel. The ceremony was a "celebration with God of his election" with an emphasis on peace, said FRANCE 24's Stuart Norval ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first U.S.-born pontiff, said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he ...

President Lazarus Chakwera and Catholic bishops in the country have joined billions of people globally in congratulating ...

The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was ...

It didn’t take long for area residents to start reacting to the choice of a new pope to lead the Catholic Church after white smoke began billowing from the Sistine ...

Being here in Rome, being part of something that’s thousands of years old, and seeing a list of every pope since St. Peter — you see this continuous chain, and you just know you’re part of ...

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

Students at St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic school witnessed history Thursday with the selection of the first-ever American-born ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday in the Sistine Chapel, where he was elected less than 24 hours earlier, ...