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

Robert Francis Prevost, the first US-born pope, embodies Catholicism’s anti-nationalist ethos. Will he follow Pope Francis in ...

The views of the Catholic Church's first American-born pope are stirring anger among some in President Donald Trump's ...

In a stunning decision, the Catholic College of Cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV, the first pope born in the U.S., leading to ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, has become the first American pope. Known for his active presence on X, he ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Palestinian student arrested as he was about to finalize his U.S. citizenship accused Columbia ...

Leo XIV’s pontificate will likely be defined by his approach to the violent conflicts rending the globe, which his ...

Francis, the first Latin American pope, clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw him as his heir apparent. He sent ...

How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

The first American pope succeeds Francis, preaching peace while confronting Church divides and urgent global crises.

The Catholic Church makes history electing its first American Pope. Pope Leo celebrating his first mass as Pontiff inside the Sistine Chapel. Father Thomas Massaro, Professor of Moral Theology at ...