Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Friday that she hopes the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff to lead the Catholic Church, will be vocal about opposing ...

The successor to Pope Francis, who will go by the name Leo XIV, goes down in history as the first pope from the United States. Francis, a native of Argentina, was the first pope from the New World ...

Although the choice of the name "Leo" may have taken the world by surprise as the American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost chose his papal name on May 8, church historians familiar with the ...

Leo referred to AI in explaining the choice of his name: His namesake, Pope Leo XIII, was pope from 1878 to 1903 and laid the foundation for modern Catholic social thought.He did so most famously ...

A formal Mass to mark the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV will take place on May 18 in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced the day after stunning the world with the election of the first pope ...

For that reason, the question of whether Pope Leo will be conservative, moderate or progressive will dominate much of the secular discussion of his papacy. But the intense interest in his ...

Robert Francis Prevost -- who took the name Pope Leo XIV -- emerged onto the balcony at St. Peter's Basilica Thursday as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. But, he would also be the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Leo presided over his first formal audience, with the cardinals who elected him pope. VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters facing humanity and vowing to continue with some ...