Pope Leo, 69, was elected on Thursday to become the 267th Pope and the first American leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

Scrutiny about the way the latest pope might run the Catholic Church started the moment he stepped on to the balcony.

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been announced as the new pontiff and has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV. There are no written ...

Robert Prevost, who took the name Pope Leo XIV, led his first Mass at the Sistine Chapel. He is the first American pope in ...

One cardinal who cast his ballot said the pope’s choice of the papal name Leo might signal a particular interest in workers’ ...

Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost was chosen as Pope Francis' successor on Thursday, taking the papal name Leo XIV. The world is ...

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

Francis may have been globally admired, but within the church hierarchy he was a polarizing figure. This could have resulted ...

"This is more than a Catholic triumph; it’s a cultural watershed for the United States," writes Christopher Hale.

When Villanova University's president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope ...

Louis Prevost is equal parts excited, mind blown and a little worried about how the papacy will impact his relationship with ...