The decision to elect Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as Catholic leader, now Pope Leo XIV, made by the 133 cardinal electors ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first pope born in the United States, but his Peruvian nationality bridges North and South America. His ...

Chicago Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected on Thursday after four rounds of voting as the new head of the Catholic ...

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected Thursday as the next pope, is partially descended from Creole ...

The old parish church buildings on Chicago's far South Side where Pope Leo XIV grew up, attended grammar school and launched ...

For Catholic theologians, the significance of the name could not be clearer, with the new pope tying himself to one of the ...

Bishop Lawrence Persico issues a statement welcoming Pope Leo XIV. With profound gratitude and heartfelt joy, I write to you ...

The Vatican announced the election of Pope Leo XIV shortly after white smoke blew from the roof of the Sistine Chapel on ...

Another Chicagoan offered kind words to the new pope on Thursday, as former President Barack Obama sent a message on social ...

mandatory portraits of Xi Jinping inside religious buildings, and censorship of religious texts. One significant update in the new guidelines is the requirement that each foreign religious group ...

By some measures, the world’s most religious countries are mostly in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan ...

Some activities, such as prayer, are widespread. Others, such as fasting and lighting incense or candles, vary more by ...