ROME (AP) — Speakers blasted songs including “Born in the U.S.A.” and “American Pie” as six cardinal electors from the United ...

The faithful at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Midtown shared their joy for Pope Leo XIV on Friday morning as they prayed and lit candles for the new pontiff. Many Americans will be able to connect with ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected as the pope of the Catholic Church, taking the name Leo ...

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...

The United States cardinals who were part of the conclave that on Thursday elected Pope Leo XIV spoke to the media at a press conference Friday.

Leo XIV held his first Mass as pope in the Sistine Chapel on Friday, in what was a private service for the 132 voting ...

Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, retired archbishop of Galveston-Houston, told the reporters that while the cardinals chose a pope who is a U.S. citizen, “he’s really a citizen of the entire world since he ...

Born as Robert Francis Prevost in 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, Pope Leo XIV grew up in a devout Catholic family in the Midwest.

Cardinals elected Leo to the supreme pontificate on Thursday afternoon, with white smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel ...

The United States is the home country for 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That's more than any ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago, is the new pope and has taken the name Leo XIV. He is the first elected ...

Robert Prevost of the U.S. is the new Catholic pontiff, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. The Chicago-born cardinal ministered in ...