Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's ...

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

Cardinals began describing the days and hours leading up to the final ballot that brought Leo past the two-thirds majority ...

More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal ...

The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...

Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope. Freed from their conclave, cardinals began describing the hours and days ...

In his first mass as the new leader of the Catholic Church on Friday, Pope Leo XIV warned that losing one’s faith can have “dramatic side effects.”These include finding that “the meaning of life is ...

Pope Leo XIV emerged from the conclave as the first American pontiff in history, he headed back into the Sistine Chapel to celebrate the liturgy.

South Philadelphia pastor Rev. Paul Galetto once lived with Pope Leo XIV at a home for the Augustinian order in the city of ...

Betting markets have correctly called 24 of the past 28 U.S. presidential elections. But they’re 0-for-2 in the past two papal elections. Robert Prevost was a 100-1 long shot at UK sportsbooks last ...

In his first mass as the new leader of the Catholic Church on Friday, Pope Leo XIV warned materialism and cautioned that ...

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