The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that ...

The newly named Pope Leo XIV has previously condemned abortion and called for gun control.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Pope Leo XIII prized global issues, economic fairness and democracy. Will Pope Leo ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

President Donald Trump congratulated Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on Thursday shortly after the American was selected as ...

The Catholic Church has a new supreme pontiff—and he’s from the South Side of Chicago. These are words that no reporter alive today ever really expected to be writing. Until very recently, the ...

Following the historic election of Pope Leo XIV—the first American to lead the Catholic Church—President Donald Trump ...

Reaction to the announcement of 69-year-old Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, who is from the South Side and raised ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, celebrated his first Mass as pontiff on Friday, presiding in the Sistine ...

Pope Leo XIV has held his first mass, a private homily with cardinals in the Vatican, since his historic election on Thursday ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected Pope Leo XIV by the College of Cardinals as the 266th successor of St. Peter, the ...