The news was delivered by the camerlengo, a senior Vatican official, with ties to Texas. Cardinal Kevin Farrell was a ... In 2019, Pope Francis named Farrell the camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church.

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

I, too, address the world's great powers by repeating the ever-present call: ‘never again war,’” Leo said from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica.

On Thursday, the Vatican in Rome made history when the conclave of cardinals chose U.S.-born Robert Francis Prevost to be the ...

Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.

Cascia Hall Preparatory School had its school day happily disrupted Thursday by the stunning news that its former governing ...

The memes, image edits and tongue-in-cheek references have piled up deeper than Chicago's pizza and more loaded than its hot ...

Tears swelled in Nancy Eder’s eyes when she found out Robert F. Prevost was elected as the Vatican’s first American pope and ...

Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, painted a picture of the Catholic Church he would like to see, ...

In a historic moment for the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago was elected on May 8, 2025, as ...

Francis, the first Latin American pope, clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw him as his heir apparent.

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...