Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

Robert Francis Prevost may have been born here in America, but he's spent most of his clerical life serving the Catholic Church abroad.

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior cardinal deacon announced. The 69-year-old Chicago native is the first ...

The police moved in to make arrests after demonstrators left the college grounds and gathered outside. Officers punched some ...

When news broke Thursday about Robert Prevost's election as the first American pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, the mood throughout Chicago was joyous.

A town hall meeting Tuesday night in Union City discusses new life-saving health services set to open next year in a ...

And the new pope is making history in a new way. Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the first American pope, and he will be ...

But, in New York – a city where nothing shocks anyone anymore – a street performance artist named “Kevin Carpet” has raised ...

Anti-Israel agitators brawled with police after attempting to set up an encampment at Brooklyn College in NYC on Thursday.

Jay Clayton can transform the Southern District of New York into a national model for federal prosecutors — aggressive on violent crime and unapologetically defending the rule of law.

Pope Leo XIV has said little publicly about a place in the Catholic Church for gay and transgender people. Some thought the ...

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