The Catholic Church has entered a new historic era with the election of American-Peruvian Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

Donald Trump post this AI produced image of himself in the vestments of the pope to his social media accounts — X, Instagram, Truth Social. The White House followed suit on its official account. There ...

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost's election as Pope Leo XIV marks a historic moment as the first American to lead the Catholic ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...

In a jubilant atmosphere, more than 10,000 faithful gathered in front of the Basilica and Cathedral of Santa María de ...

In the frenzied days leading up to the papal conclave following Pope Francis’s passing on April 21, speculation was rampant: ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has become the first American ever to be elected pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

While he has been to the Philippines several times before he became Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost’s return to the ...