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

Robert F. Prevost, 69, was a longshot selection with extensive missionary experience in Peru and an approach similar to Pope ...

The election of Leo, the Catholic Church's first American pope, is drawing a mixed response from groups often at odds with ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

Robert Prevost of the U.S. is the new Catholic pontiff, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. The Chicago-born cardinal ministered in ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke billowing up through the Sistine Chapel chimney after two more inconclusive rounds ...

The divisions are evident in issues like immigration, same-sex couples, and the role of women in the Church. Read more at ...

Massachusetts residents expressed shock that American-born Robert Francis Prevost will lead the Catholic Church. What they said after his selection ...

Pope Leo XIV has never been accused of abuse, but has been in positions of authority when accusations of sexual abuse have ...

Pope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of ...

Students at a Catholic elementary school in Dorchester not only witnessed the election of a new pope, but also got to learn<a ...