Leo is now tied for the fourth most common name chosen by popes, along with Clement. Only John, Gregory and Benedict have proven more popular. But we haven’t had a Pope Leo in more than a ...

Dressed in those storied papal vestments is a tennis-loving, Wordle-playing, White Sox fan from Chicago, a former math major at Villanova University who's now pontiff – Pope Leo XIV. Ahead of ...

In some of his first public remarks since being elevated to the papacy, Pope Leo XIV denounced the jailing of journalists and the use of the media to pit people against one another. And though the ...

Pope Leo XIV called free speech and the press a "precious gift" as he asked for the release of imprisoned journalists. He made the comments during an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists ...

The elevation of Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost into Pope Leo XIV means that what the novelist Saul Bellow called “an American, Chicago-born” will serve as the vicar of Christ and 267th bishop of ...

For more on Pope Leo XIV and what he means for both the church and for the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, we turn now to two guests, both in Rome. Kim Daniels is the director of the Initiative on ...

Prevost, 69, who chose the name Pope Leo XIV, was formerly the prior general, or leader, of the Order of St. Augustine, which was formed in the 13th century as a community of “mendicant ...

"May we all work together towards the place where God has prepared for us," he said, according to a translation from NBC News. He stressed the need to "build bridges" with "dialogue" and "love ...

The new pope is Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost from the United States -- the first pope ever chosen from the U.S. His chosen name is Pope Leo XIV. Here's a look at the conclave by the numbers ...

COULDN’T BE HAPPIER PERSONALLY, BUT REALLY FOR THE GLOBAL CHURCH, FOR VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY, WE’RE ALL VERY PROUD OF NOW POPE, POPE LEO AND AND I THINK IT REALLY BODES WELL FOR WHERE THE CHURCH ...