While President Trump welcomed the U.S.-born cardinal as the new pope, top Trump allies criticized Leo XIV for his similarities to Pope Francis. By Tim Balk When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ...

He has chosen Leo XIV as his papal name to lead the Catholic church. White smoke pouring out from the Sistine Chapel chimney in Vatican City signaled Thursday that Catholic cardinals had selected ...

His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links Leo XIV to the rich and sometimes overlooked Black Catholic experience in America. By Richard Fausset and Robert ...