Boston Catholics are joining the faithful around the world in celebrating the election of the first American-born pope. "Everyone was, you know, prognosticating. But we got a surprise today, and I think that surprise is a happy one,

Cardinal Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, is the first U.S.-born pope in the Church's history. Here's how readers reacted to his election.

Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual identity has put them at ease.