In an interview with America's Gerard O'Connell, Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington said that Pope Leo XIV would "carry ...

I don’t think he’s the kind of man who sends coded messages,” Cardinal Michael Czerny says in this exclusive interview with ...

With more than 61 million Catholics and the second-highest number of cardinals after Italy, a guessing game is emerging on whether an American could be elected pope.

Last week, white smoke from the Vatican signaled that he'd been elected the first North American pope in the history of the ...

Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and U.S. Church leaders joined scores of American Catholics—many bearing U.S. flags—as the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV celebrated the traditional Mass of ...

It wasn’t which direction church doctrine might travel that I found most appealing. It was hearing this first American pope ...

Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV called for humanitarian aid to be allowed into war-torn Gaza, decrying the violence and suffering ...

As a missionary and bishop in Peru, the future Pope Leo came face-to-face with one of the most serious and far-reaching ...

Pope Leo XIV spent two decades ministering in Peru. He became part of Peruvian society and, eventually, a leader within it.

Land and environmental defenders in Latin America and around the world are being ... this campaign and the violence that it hopes to disarm. The new pope had a close relationship with Francis, whose ...

VATICAN CITY — Jewish leaders got up-front seats at Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration Mass. An American rabbi there and other ...

A special mass at St. John the Evangelist honored Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago and has deep ties to Latin America.