Pope Leo, 69, was elected on Thursday to become the 267th Pope and the first American leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been announced as the new pontiff and has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV. There are no written ...

Robert Prevost, who took the name Pope Leo XIV, led his first Mass at the Sistine Chapel. He is the first American pope in ...

Francis may have been globally admired, but within the church hierarchy he was a polarizing figure. This could have resulted ...

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

Prior to his election as Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost's social media activity suggested criticism of President Donald Trump's ...

When Villanova University's president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope ...

Louis Prevost is equal parts excited, mind blown and a little worried about how the papacy will impact his relationship with ...

"This is more than a Catholic triumph; it’s a cultural watershed for the United States," writes Christopher Hale.

Pope Leo XIV voted in Democratic primaries in 2008 and 2010 and in three Republican primaries in the years that followed, ...

One cardinal who cast his ballot said the pope’s choice of the papal name Leo might signal a particular interest in workers’ ...

In a place where civic pride is a way of life, Chicagoans need little help believing the election of Pope Leo shows their ...