Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is now known to be of African ancestry, part of a growing picture Americans are ...

During the call, the Ukrainian leader extended a formal invitation for the pontiff to visit Ukraine, stating that such a ...

Pope Leo XIV has told the world's Jewish communities he wants to strengthen the Roman Catholic Church’s dialogue with them, ...

The motto of one newly elected American world leader: " Fight! " The other introduced himself to the world with his first ...

While posturing as a reformer, Prevost was selected to further the Church’s alliance with capital and protect its own ...

Leo, who was born in Chicago, signed a baseball that someone held out to him. A woman in the line asked him for a selfie — a ...

The new pope’s status as an American shocked me, and I immediately began to consider the politics and symbolism of the choice.

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

Pope Leo also celebrated Mother’s Day as jubilee bands and thousands of pilgrims created a festive atmosphere in St. Peter’s ...

Hundreds of thousands of devotees of the Virgin Mary on Monday gathered at the sanctuary of Fatima in Portugal to pray for ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift ...