Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as Pope Leo XIV, the first US-born pontiff, succeeding the late Pope Francis. Addressing a large crowd from St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Leo XIV called for ...

VATICAN CITY-Pope Leo XIV took his first trip outside the Vatican on May 10, heading about an hour’s drive east of Rome for a visit to a Catholic shrine and stopping on the way back to pay ...

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to accurate note where Pope Leo XIV got his undergraduate degree. A video of Pope Leo XIV at the 2005 World Series game between the White Sox and the ...

He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. As Pope Leo XIV laid out his vision for the papacy in an address to the College of Cardinals, he also explained why he ...

To many Peruvians, however, Leo is more than the first pope from the U.S. He is also the first Peruvian pope. Pope Leo, born on the South Side of Chicago, first arrived in Peru in 1985 as a ...

Pope Leo XIV made a surprise visit Saturday to a sanctuary south of Rome that is dedicated to the Madonna and of significance to his Augustinian order. Townspeople of Genazzano gathered in the ...

Prevost ultimately went with Leo XIV in honor of Pope Leo XIII, who served from 1878 to 1903. "He could have been Francis II, and we would have said, ‘Oh, there he is clearly in the line of ...

Pope Leo signals he will press ahead with Francis' agenda Leo asks world's cardinals to commit to Church reforms Pope says Church should take lead against AI Cardinal says Vatican-China deal also ...

FOR MANY YEARS HE USED TO COME AND GO. FATHER THOMAS POULIOT, SPEAKING TO 12 NEWS OVER THE PHONE FRIDAY, OVERJOYED WITH THE CHURCH’S NEW POPE, POPE LEO THE 14TH. WE ARE SO EXCITED THAT WE ...

Pope Leo XIV’s maternal grandparents were black or mixed and of Creole descent, moving from New Orleans to Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, reports said Friday. “The family were free ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the history of a legendary papal namesake. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ...

This house of God is a total real-estate blessing! The owner of Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in the suburbs of Chicago yanked the humble abode off the market overnight with potential plans to ...