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

Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a ...

If the new pope is able to update church teachings on some hot-button issues, it will be because Pope Francis set the stage ...

As Catholics around the world welcome the successor of Pope Francis, everyone is a buzz regarding the first-ever American ...

Cardinal Filoni pointed to what was until this week the most recent Leonine pope, Pope Leo XIII, who lead the Church from ...

Over in the Apostolic Palace - now unsealed - Robert Prevost held a moment of private prayer. Then, for the first time, he re ...

From Vatican News Archbishop Timothy Broglio, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, expresses joy ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first person from the United States to lead the Catholic Church, is taking on a financial headache in his ...

The new pontiff, who was chosen as leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday (May 8), has travelled extensively in Asia where ...