ROME - The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Mass on Friday after his historic election as the first North American ...

Robert Francis Prevost will lead the Catholic Church as Pope Leo XIV, becoming the first pope to hail from the United States.

In a historic moment for the nearly 2,000-year-old Catholic Church, the first-ever pope from the United States was elected on ...

In a digital age, the front pages of print newspapers can still capture a historic moment as they did on Friday with ...

By the time Francis took over as leader of the Catholic Church in 2013, meetings between the president and the pontiff had ...

In an instant, Cardinal Robert Prevost became the most powerful and influential American Catholic when he was selected to be pope and rechristened Pope Leo XIV on May 8. Vatican experts told ABC News ...

The Republican described the president as "an American man of depraved cruelty, corruption, and shame" in a social media post.

The world learned Melania Trump was Catholic when she brought rosary beads for Pope Francis to bless in 2017. Now, she's ...

People should take note of the pope's criticism of the Trump administration's policies and their effects on humanity.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were among those attending the funeral of Pope Francis. Former President ...

The clash in style between Donald Trump and Pope Francis and their positions on migration, the environment and poverty will ...