Tens of thousands of faithful Catholics gathered in St. Peter’s Square to watch Pope Leo XIV deliver the first Sunday blessing of his pontificate exactly at noon. They ...

Pope Leo XIV called for an end to war in the world as he greeted crowds from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday, ...

Pope Leo XIV will greet the crowd from the balcony of St Peter's Basilica on Sunday, leading a prayer to the Virgin Mary in ...

Many sites associated with past popes have become museums or holy destinations for the faithful. But Pope Leo XIV’s childhood ...

Leo, the Chicago-born Augustinian missionary Robert Prevost, surprised the world on Thursday when he emerged on the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday, a day after his historic election as the first North American pope in the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born ...

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...

We associate popes with St. Peter's Basilica, standing between Bernini's great spiral ... A guard opens little sliding doors - inside, behind a marble grill, what looks like some very old wood. For ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica ... The centuries-old rites, however, still involved Catholic pageantry and 250,000 ...