Cardinals began describing the days and hours leading up to the final ballot that brought Leo past the two-thirds majority needed.

Pope Leo XIV’s focus on refugees and his pluralistic background may offer a different view of U.S. values than the ...

Preaching in the Sistine Chapel on May 9 to the cardinals who elected him, the first pope born in the United States opened ...

The late pope’s attention to geographic detail led to what was described as the most diverse conclave in the history of the ...

Here’s what we know so far about Pope Leo’s inauguration Mass. The inauguration Mass is due to take place on Sunday, May 18, ...

Pope Leo XIV, in remarks in 2012 when he was the Augustinian prior general in Chicago, made comments critical of what he ...

R obert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, made history on Thursday, May 8, when he was elected as the first ...

In his first mass as the new leader of the Catholic Church on Friday, Pope Leo XIV warned that losing one’s faith can have ...

Leo XIV held his first Mass as pope in the Sistine Chapel on Friday, in what was a private service for the 132 voting ...

Two U.S. cardinals said the conclave did not choose the first American pope to act as a counterweight for President Donald Trump.

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior ...