The moment spoke to an evolving truth. As much as Leo has echoed Francis since his dramatic debut on the central balcony Thursday, the first American pontiff is also fast emerging as his own man.

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Tom Francis knows he can't take his phone ... I'm like, it's the first rule of Fight Club. You can't talk about Fight Club. Is that the kind of vibe with the Met Gala?” ...

Pope Leo XIV, 69-year-old Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago, was chosen as the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics around the world. He is the first American pope. His election took multiple ...

The 69-year-old was announced as the new pontiff—the first one from the United States—May 8, just one day after the College of Cardinals gathered for a conclave to elect Francis' successor.

“Peace be with you all,” said Robert Francis Prevost, the first US-born pontiff, on Thursday, after he was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Leo XIV.

Among those secluded at the Sistine Chapel and its environs during the papal conclave to select the successor to Pope Francis — the first day brought a plume of black smoke, meaning that no pontiff ...

For the very first time in the history of the Catholic Church, professional women were at the table, as voting members, when the final recommendations of the synod were adopted. Pope Francis ...

Thus began the unprecedented and unanticipated collaboration between the Church’s first Jesuit pope and the Society of Jesus, repairing the long-standing rift between Francis’ immediate ...

Neomi De Anda consults for the Louisville Institute, funded by Lily Endowment Inc. She receives funding from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology. She is a past ...

Inverted crosses visible as Pope Francis lay in state symbolise Saint Peter, the first pontiff, and are not a reference to satanism. Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman ...

Shortly after the death of Pope Francis, New York Archbishop Cardinal ... Instead Jesus offers his entire person to those he encounters. In the first chapter of the Gospel of John, two of the ...