At services on Sunday, some Catholics took particular pride in the election of the first American pontiff, who has familial ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV lived in St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1970s while studying to become a priest. He was in a parish ...

In a nod to the past and a signal for the future, the new pope has chosen a name that places AI at the heart of his mission.

The Papal conclave has elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new leader of the Catholic Church. Here’s what we know ...

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church of his new country, Peru. In fact, he became a Peruvian citizen,” Canadian ...

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

I, too, address the world’s great powers by repeating the ever-present call ‘never again war,’” Leo said from St. Peter’s ...

Pope Leo XIV is seen as a centrist who shares his predecessor's progressive views on certain social issues. Here's what we ...

The new pope, speaking to thousands in St. Peter’s Square, echoed themes that Francis, his predecessor, regularly addressed.

The Catholic Centre for Studies and Media in Jordan has welcomed the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the new ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...