Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S.

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...

Brazilian Cardinal Leonardo Steiner told America that Pope Leo would carry forward Pope Francis' legacy of synodality in the ...

Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as ...

Pope Leo XIV has completed the final ceremonial steps to formalizing his role as the bishop of Rome. The pontiff formally ...

The world of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and similar believers in transactional reality has created a moral vacuum. There is an ...

ABC7's Liz Nagy spent almost two weeks reporting from the Vatican as the Catholic Church elected Pope Leo XIV as its next leader. Nagy and an ABC7 crew were sent out to cover the papal conclave. They ...

Now that Prevost has been elected pope, Paredes said he is filled with optimism for the future of the Church. He hopes that ...

(AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, left, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ... Basilica at the Vatican shortly after his election as the 267th pontiff of the Roman ...

Though Catholics around the world are largely shocked at the election of an American pontiff ... if Prevost will follow on the same path as Pope Francis but said every pope has a different ...