At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

Jumping straight into the geopolitical fray, the words of the U.S.-born pontiff are meant to single out Vladimir Putin — a ...

The Catholic Church has entered a new historic era with the election of American-Peruvian Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th ...

COMMENTARY: The Pope has put forward Augustine as his great friend, father and companion on the Way of Christ.

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — has been welcomed with American capitalism in his home city, with ...

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

Criminal justice reform has long been one of the most divisive issues between Democrats who control the Illinois General Assembly and the Republican minority.

A comedy film from the late 1980s has resurfaced after a journalist recalled that the movie “predicted” the name of Pope Leo ...

Extended Legislative Session Begins After the Florida Legislature failed to come to terms on a state budget during the annual ...

May 12, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke for the first time with the newly elected Pope Leo XIV. Among the ...

On Thursday afternoon, white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City as Catholics and non-Catholics alike around the world watched with great interest to see who would be chosen as the ...