Before we met Pope Leo XIV, shows like "The New Pope" and "The Young Pope" mythologized the Vatican to the masses.

The first American pope is succeeding a church leader whose ... and comfortable with the larger implications of Trump's attacks on stability, the rule of law, etc." Trump, for his part, issued ...

The first American pope is succeeding a church leader whose ... and comfortable with the larger implications of Trump's attacks on stability, the rule of law, etc." Trump, for his part, issued ...

And the surprise result of the first-ever American pope delivered a shocking conclusion ... But there will, of course, be implications for the nation’s broader political and civic life.

It was not so much because of the implications of what this might ... And perhaps, if I'm honest, the selection of an American pope was a validation of the outsider’s conflict I've felt during ...

THE FIRST AMERICAN BORN POPE? YEAH. I MEAN ... Political Science professor John Dinan about possible political implications of the historic election. Watch in the video player above.

The election of an American Pope breaks paradigms: from 33 A.D. to 2025, 80% of the 266 popes were Italian. The United States, despite having 85 million Catholics, had never had a pope.

My favorite early fact about Pope Bob from Chicago comes from his ... God is love and all its implications — this idea can make life bearable, and yet be so hard to believe.

“The conventional wisdom was that there would not be an American pope because of geopolitical implications,” said Morrill, a Jesuit priest. Morrill also noted that Leo XIII issued the first ...

"Most cardinals are sensitive to media speculation and would worry about the PR implications ... The 69-year-old American begins his papacy slightly older than the average pope since the start ...