Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born ...

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.

Close to home, parishioners attended mass to celebrate their new pontiff, Robert Prevost, who chose the name Pope Leo XIV.

The white smoke has appeared, the people screamed, and now we wait for the new Pontiff to come out onto the balcony. Here's ...

Legendary college football coach Lou Holtz urged Catholics around the world to show their support in prayer, and even ...

The 19th reports that newly elected Pope Leo XIV, the first American to hold the papacy—as well as the first Peruvian citizen, having been naturalized after working in the country for decades—was born ...

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential ...

One day after Pope Leo XIV was introduced to the world, some young Catholics and educators in the church here in South ...

What will Pope Leo XIV do? Will he continue the policies of Pope Francis or take the Catholic church in another direction?

The new leader of the Catholic Church reportedly aligns very closely with the late Pope Francis’ social views regarding the ...