Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Mass as the leader of the Catholic Church while congratulatory messages poured in for ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first U.S.-born pontiff, said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, said Friday that his election was both a cross and a ...

An American has been chosen as pope for the first time in history. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost will lead the Roman ...

Addressing the cardinals in English, he said "you have called me to carry the cross and to be blessed" and asked for their ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first American-born leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Here’s why his election is being celebrated in ...

Pope Leo XIV is to be inaugurated on May 18 with a mass in St Peter's Square, the Vatican said on Friday, one day after the ...

The pope reportedly voted in primaries for both the GOP and Democratic parties and cast an absentee ballot for the 2024 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Well, this didn’t take long: Pope Leo XIV has a bobblehead. Almost as soon as the white smoke wafted from ...

Leo is a member of the Order of St. Augustine, the only Augustinian in this conclave. The order, founded in 1244 under Pope ...