The pope was reassured, and he stopped to reach out to people, especially children, as he was driven through the crowd of 50,000 — the first time ... to a 12-year papacy that sought to shake up the ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, became the 267th leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday and the second Pope ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago will succeed Pope Francis as the leader of the Catholic Church. Prevost, the first ...

The crowd of people below, estimated by the Vatican to ... we must try to find out how to be a missionary church, a church that builds bridges, establishes dialogue, that’s always open to ...

Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church for the past 12 years ... and imparted the apostolic blessing in Latin. The crowd of people below, estimated by the Vatican to be more than 35,000 ...

Many had no clue that the first US pope in the history of the 2,000-year church had just been elected. In some cases, it was reporters who told people in the crowd who the new pope was.