The conservative ire that has roiled Catholicism during the previous pontificate is likely to continue with this first ...

Before he was chosen, Robert Francis Prevost had the papal seal of approval from his predecessor, Francis, who put him in one ...

In his first public message, Pope Leo XIV said the Church should "receive everybody," but some of his past comments haven't ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69 — now known as Pope Leo XIV — was named as the first leader of the Catholic church to come from ...

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chape l and St. Peter's bells chimed around 6 p.m. local time in Rome on May 8, ...

The 69-year-old will become Leo XIV as he succeeds the late Pope Francis, who brought the Peruvian-American to the Vatican ...

Imagine, for the first time in our history having an American pope. Someone who understands American issues. And he’s also a ...

US Catholics flocked to churches across the country in a celebratory mood to mark the "excitement" of the first-ever American ...