When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he ...

A Wednesday night informational meeting at St. Timothy Episcopal Church in Chehalis regarding its safe parking pilot program with Hope Housing Collaborative started with a prayer and ended with ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first Pope from the Order of St. Augustine, which suggests he will promote peace and dialogue.

His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links Leo XIV to the rich and sometimes overlooked ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is now known to be of African ancestry, part of a growing picture Americans are ...

Two Minot students at the University of Mary participated in one of the most significant events of the Catholic Church on ...

And the family did not identify as Black, his brother told The New York Times. Still, the revelation of Leo’s background has ... US are playing in the world church,” Ricard said.

Pope Leo XIV was born and raised in Chicago. He is of French, Italian and Spanish descent. He spent years working as a ...

For now, it seems that Pope Leo is not only the first American pope, but he also represents the melting pot of backgrounds in ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...

The leader of the Diocese of Palm Beach hailed the choice of American-born Pope Leo XIV as Pope Francis' successor.