When I heard Robert Francis Prevost was elected the new pope and that he was raised in my hometown of Chicago, I cheered ...

Soon after the first American took over as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV made history in San Diego. For his ...

While other students might be in class or socializing at lunch, a group of young Catholics attends Mass every weekday at noon ...

In an interview with America's Gerard O'Connell, Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington said that Pope Leo XIV would "carry forward" the legacy of Pope Francis' pontificate "in its essential elements." ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed a Vietnamese American bishop in the United States, selecting Auxiliary Bishop Michael Pham to lead ...

One former student called the longtime University of Chicago Divinity School professor "an intellectual who loved to think." ...

VATICAN CITY, — Pope Leo XIV's election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a symbol of peace in the world, offering a message of communion ...

choosing the name Pope Leo XIV and becoming the first American pope in the Catholic Church's 2,000-year history. The bells of the cathedral in Peru’s capital of Lima, at Holy Name Cathedral in ...