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

ABC News’ Linsey Davis reports on the significance of Pope Leo XIV’s name and what it hints at for the future of his papacy.

How did the new pope win over his colleagues and what does he bring to the role from his upbringing in Chicago and his work ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

As Pope Leo XIV stepped out in front of cheering crowds outside of St. Peter’s Basilica to give his first speech as head of ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.

A couple dozen people walked through the open doors of the long-closed St. Mary of the Assumption parish Friday to see where ...

"For many years, he used to come and go," the Rev. Thomas Vathappallil of St. Rita's in Racine County said about Pope Leo Friday.

Pope Leo XIV gave a homily at a Mass a day after he was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. Here's what the new pontiff said, and what he's up to in the coming days.

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

Americans gathered in St. Peter’s Square on May 8 to celebrate the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pontiff from the ...