The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago and raised in the south suburb of Dolton, where his old house has become a ...

He had the good papal housekeeping seal of approval from Pope Francis, his predecessor, who put him in one of the top jobs in ...

He now leads a sovereign nation, Vatican City, and the U.S. State Department says that for an American to retain citizenship ...

Harry Styles was among the many spectators that gathered in Vatican City to watch Pope Leo XIV, formerly Robert Francis Prevost, assume his new role as leader of the Catholic Church.

As Pope Leo XIV stepped out in front of cheering crowds outside of St. Peter’s Basilica to give his first speech as head of ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

In his advocacy of the poor, migrants and a more open church, many people see the new pope as a continuation of his ...

Francis, the first Latin American pope, clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw him as his heir apparent. He sent ...

Pope Leo XIV has laid out the vision of his papacy, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters facing humanity. In his first formal audience Saturday, Leo made clear he ...

Chicago, a uniquely meme-able city, was the center of a ton of jokes. Here is some of the internet’s best work.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has become the first-ever American elected as the leader of the Catholic Church -- now known by his pontifical name of Pope Leo XIV. The 69-year-old, born on the ...