WXII 12 KELLY KENDALL MET HIM AT HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH IN KERNERSVILLE. THAT’S WHERE WE FIND HER NOW. SUCH AN INTERESTING CONNECTION, KELLY. WHY WAS HE IN ROME AT THE TIME? YEAH.

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born ...

Although hope had swelled in recent weeks in the Philippines — Asia’s largest majority-Catholic ... “May the Holy Spirit impart wisdom, strength and grace as he shepherds the church.

Inverted crosses visible as Pope Francis lay in state symbolise Saint Peter, the first pontiff, and are not a reference to ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history's first American pope.

Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, painted a picture of the Catholic Church he would like to see, ...

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

Robert Prevost, elected pope Thursday, grew up in Dolton. Former neighbors and local Catholics reacted to the election of the ...

More than 130 cardinals from all over the world are gathering today for the papal conclave, through which a new head of the ...

He brought Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 to serve as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations from around the world, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church.