The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

The Order of St. Augustine, with fewer than 3,000 members, shaped the man who would become a cardinal, and then pope to the ...

Pope Leo XIV held his first public audience with members of the media on May 12, saying the church stood in solidarity with them for "seeking the truth" and calling for imprisoned journalists ...

Growing up, Louis Prevost knew there was something special about his brother, Pope Leo XIV. "We knew as a family from a very young age, there was something special about Rob," Louis told CBS News ...

Newly elected as pope, Robert Prevost has chosen Leo XIV as his papal name. No pope has been named Leo since the early 1900s. The most recent, Pope Leo XIII, served as supreme pontiff from 1878 to ...

Pope Leo XIV’s maternal grandparents were black or mixed and of Creole descent, moving from New Orleans to Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, reports said Friday. “The family were free ...

While Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, Illinois, records show that his family lineage has deep roots in Louisiana. When his maternal great-grandmother was just a baby, she was baptized in 1840 at ...

Pope Leo XIV called for an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine and Gaza during his first Sunday blessing as pontiff. “I too address the world’s great powers by repeating the ever-present call ‘n ...