Pope Francis stepped down after a long period of ill health, leaving the Catholic Church to select a new leader. In a ...

He lashed out at Martha Raddatz for suggesting “Pope Leo’s selection had nothing to do with Donald Trump,” which she didn’t ...

Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Bowman explains the similarities and differences in how Catholics pick their popes and ...

Pope Leo XIV has explained that his papal name honors the Catholic Church’s tradition of social teaching while signaling a ...

While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

Standing on loggia of St. Peter’s basilica, newly elected Pope Leo XIV smiled, waved and appeared to hold back emotion May 8 ...

Cardinal Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota who travelled to Rome for the papal conclave, ...

Chicagoans celebrated the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the U.S. and a Chicago native, with joy and ...

Chicago residents were ecstatic about the first North American pope, Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to the papacy on Thursday.

Some conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic over the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, hopeful ...

Japanese Cardinal Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo says Pope Leo XIV’s previous work as a missionary and as a Vatican official were ...