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.

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...

He is certainly the most powerful, at least for three more years, but power is only one measure of importance. On Thursday, a ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, has Creole roots. That is raising awareness about the complexity of the Creole ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

I, too, address the world's great powers by repeating the ever-present call: ‘never again war,’” Leo said from the loggia of ...

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

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

As the United States of America approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, the country has achieved something many ...

New pontiff prays at tomb of Francis ahead of first Sunday address - The new pope will give his first Sunday blessing and ...