ROME - The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

Philadelphia Filipinos had been rooting for Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle to be the next pope and are disappointed.

Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

White smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney at the Vatican, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been announced as the new pontiff and has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV. There are no written ...

A new pope has been elected, and in a major surprise, an American has been chosen for the first time. Robert Francis Prevost ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago will succeed Pope Francis as the leader of the Catholic Church. Prevost, the first ...