Before he died, Pope Francis gave away the last of his personal savings to a cause he deeply cared about: bringing hope to ...

Among the roughly 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, many are keenly anticipating the upcoming conclave at the Vatican ...

Pope Francis was an elder already when he began his papacy. His life and his service hold valuable lessons for all whose ...

With its meteoric rise chronicled in the New York Times under the comical headline “Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist ...

Although estranged from his own religious order for more than two decades, Pope Francis reconciled immediately after his election and remained a committed Jesuit until his death.

The new leader of the Catholic Church is American Robert Francis Prevost, Cardinal Dominique Mamberti announced to a crowd in ...

The first American pope succeeds Francis, preaching peace while confronting Church divides and urgent global crises.

The Catholic Church has elected its first American pope in history: Cardinal Robert Prevost. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Yet the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel chose Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native, as the 267th pope of the ...

The same people who questioned Jorge Bergoglio when he became Pope today celebrate him as “the most important Argentine in ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected the first pope from the United States on the second day of the ...

Leo XIV urged the Catholic Church to work urgently to restore the faith of millions in his first homily as pope Friday, a day ...