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 ...

Once loyal Chicagoans got over the double shock of hearing that a local native, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has been named the ...

One Villanova professor attributed Leo’s election to what he called the “Trump effect,” while a conservative Catholic ...

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 ...