The pope invited the cardinals "to renew together today our complete commitment to the path that the universal church has now followed for decades in the wake of the Second Vatican Council." ...

The world watched as white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel, signaling the swift election of Cardinal Robert Francis ...

Leo, the first American pope, told the cardinals that he was fully committed to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the 1960s meetings that modernized the church. He identified AI as one of the ...

Pope Leo XIV, the former Robert Francis Prevost, is a gamer, of sorts. The Pope's brother, John Prevost, told WGN-TV that his ...

Robert Prevost, who was promoted by Francis and has a knack for management and a zeal for missionary work, was a stronger ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first trip outside Rome since being elected as leader of the Catholic Church. The pope was driven to ...

There is little without precedent in the Catholic Church, but it is fair to say nothing exactly like the election of Pope Leo ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's ...

Host Jeffrey Goldberg and the "Washington Week" panel discuss the politics of Pope Leo XIV and the MAGA movement. Goldberg's opening monologue: JEFFREY GOLDBERG, THE ATLANTIC, 'WASHINGTON WEEK' HOST: ...

Hailing from Chicago, Leo is the first American pontiff in the history of the Church. He attended Villanova University, where ...