Much of the majority immigrant congregation at St. Charles Borromeo saw Pope Francis as their spiritual champion.

Leo, the former Cardinal Robert Prevost, has led some two dozen public events since he was elected as the first U.S. pope on ...

When Dustin Pagan-Peterson and his husband found out Pope Francis had passed, the only thing they could do after confirming it online was hold each other’s hands across the breakfast table and cry.

The new leader of the Catholic Church is American Robert Francis Prevost, Cardinal Dominique Mamberti announced to a crowd in ...

The 266th pope built an unexpected economic legacy through bold critiques of capitalism and banking systems. Francis' vision ...

The faithful in Los Angeles, America’s most Catholic city, were delighted — and a little stunned — to learn a Chicago-born priest with deep roots in Peru had been elected to lead the world’s 1.4 ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop ...

The ceremony was the first local ordination in the era of Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to the papacy on May 8, succeeding ...

John Connelly is a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, and the author of “From Enemy to Brother ...