Vatican News published a photo of the white-robed pope kneeling before Francis's marble tomb at the basilica in central Rome, ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago but spent two decades as a missionary in Peru, said a few words in English before ...

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

After two days of conclave and only four votes, the cardinals selected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the church's next pope.

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

Pope Leo XIV says Catholic Church must illuminate 'dark nights of this world' in first Mass - Friday’s service comes a day ...