An Israeli airstrike hit Gaza’s only Catholic church, killing two people and wounding several others, including Rev. Gabriele ...

Places where Robert Francis Prevost may have spent childhood in, around Dolton is mostly now photographs and memories.

Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old born in Chicago who spent decades serving in Peru, would become Pope Leo XIV, the first American to ascend to the papacy in the church’s 2,000-year history.

That view echoes comments made by Pope Francis himself, who in 2016 took a sharp jab at then-candidate Trump over his proposed border wall: “A person who thinks only about building walls ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as leader of the Catholic Church in the Sistine Chapel, a day after he was elected the first American pontiff by the papal conclave.

Pope Francis brought Robert Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. On Thursday, he ...

Pope Leo XIV is expected to live in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, unlike the late Pope Francis who shunned the palace in favour of a Vatican hotel, according to several Vatican officials.