The new pope, speaking to thousands in St. Peter’s Square, echoed themes that Francis, his predecessor, regularly addressed.

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

Robert Prevost, a tennis-loving, Wordle-playing White Sox fan from Chicago, is now leader of the world's nearly 1.5 billion Catholics. Vatican observers describe what the election of Leo XIV, the ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, has Creole roots. That is raising awareness about the complexity of the Creole ...

Pope Leo XIV has laid out the vision of his papacy and has identified artificial intelligence as one of the most critical ...

This is like a reward from God,” a local parishioner said, as researchers unearthed more details about the lives of Leo XIV’s ...

In a digital age, the front pages of print newspapers can still capture a historic moment as they did on Friday with ...

Leo’s ascent occurred with remarkable speed. Just over two years ago, he’d been one of the church’s 5,400 bishops — a role ...

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, who has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV, has been elected the 267th bishop of Rome and leader of the ...

The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a ...