A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Born in the Windy City in 1955 to parents of Spanish and Franco-Italian descent, Prevost served as an altar boy and was ...

Newsweek Columnist, Vice President of Content at Salem Media Group and host of "Our American Stories" It was the first homily ...

Some of the cardinals who elected him said his life of service to the poor in Peru and to the church at the Vatican mattered ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, became the first pope from the United States. Now, Chicago businesses are getting in on the ...

A prominent Catholic newspaper is among those suggesting Pope Leo XIV may be the first Black pontiff in the Catholic Church’s ...

Vatican City • At a Mass in the Sistine Chapel on Friday attended by the cardinals who had elected him their leader the day ...

Rev. John Leo Oduor, a Roman Catholic priest in Central New York, knew the man who would become Pope Leo XIV while studying ...

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) is urging the new pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, to create a "universal zero ...

When Pope Leo XIV addressed the crowds in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday evening, the first American pope made it clear that ...