The pope also has a more direct role on everyday Americans, in the sense that he is the head of a church followed by 20 ...

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

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

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

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

In a place where civic pride is a way of life, Chicagoans need little help believing the election of Pope Leo shows their ...

That the new pontiff’s ancestry can be partially traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture in New Orleans has ...

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

Yet the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel chose Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native, as the 267th pope of the ...

An interview with a brother of Pope Leo XIV conducted by a journalist for The Associated Press was interrupted when the new ...

The 69-year-old chose the papal name Leo XIV, in honor of St. Leo, a fifth-century pontiff known for his devotion to the poor ...

At midweek, the chaplain of Villanova University's basketball team cheered as one of his former star players led the New York ...