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.

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

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

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

New pontiff says Church must continue ‘precious legacy’ of Pope Francis - New leader of the Catholic Church identified AI as ...

ABC News’ Linsey Davis reports on the significance of Pope Leo XIV’s name and what it hints at for the future of his papacy.

Pope Leo XIV has laid out the vision of his papacy, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters ...

Vatican reporter Gerard O'Connell, Colleen Dulle and Sam Sawyer, S.J., discuss the unexpectedly quick election of the first ...

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

Parishioners in St. Augustine expressed a sense of optimism and hope for the new pontiff the morning after the Vatican made ...

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