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.

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The election of Pope Leo XIV, who is the first U.S. pope and has Creole roots, is raising more awareness about the complexity ...

In his first formal audience Saturday, Leo made clear he will follow in the modernizing reforms of his predecessor, Pope ...

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

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 morning after John Prevost watched his younger brother Robert become Pope Leo XIV, he received a familiar phone call.

A new pope has been elected, and in a major surprise, an American has been chosen for the first time. Robert Francis Prevost ...

But many people in the square looked puzzled at first, and the complete lack of phone coverage meant that most couldn't look ...

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong also wrote to the new pope to congratulate him.