The last Leo, Leo XIII, who served in the Vatican from 1878 until 1903, was the first pope in more than 1,000 years to not rule the Papal States as a king.

Pope Leo XIV is just over a day into his pontificate and is already capturing style critics' attention with his return to form on papal aesthetics.

His predecessor, Pius IX, prince of fools, had lost the Papal States and most of the Church’s earthly power, and he had rammed through the doctrine of papal infallibility at the First Vatican ...

A U.S. bishop thought it was unlikely that Catholic cardinals would break with more than two centuries of precedent to pick a pope from the states, but it has happened.

Pope Leo XIV conclave by the numbers: From number of cardinals to length of voting Since 1831, no conclave has lasted more than four days.

The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest state in the world, with its own newspaper, national anthem in Latin and supreme leader: the pope. They can also use the Vatican's ...

For the first time, the pope is from the United States. The world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics have a new spiritual leader, the 267th pontiff to lead the nearly 2,000-year-old church. Robert ...

President Donald Trump's recent joke that he would "like to be pope" aside, the chances do not appear great that the next pope will hail from the United States. The College of Cardinals will ...

Just after noon on Thursday, the Vatican released white smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that a new pope has been selected.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States was elected as the pope of the Catholic Church on Thursday, taking the name Leo XIV.

This all came to a head on Thursday when the papal conclave finally sent up white smoke from the Sistine Chapel, signalling that a new pope had been selected.

Pope Francis died Easter Monday, the Vatican announced. Here's a look at his time in the United States, including if he ever visited Massachusetts.