Pope Leo XIV, history’s first U.S.-born pontiff, said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he ...

A day after being chosen the first U.S.-born pontiff, Pope Leo XIV said on Friday that his election was both a blessing and a cross to bear. The Chicago-born Augustinian missionary Robert Prevost ...

Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history's first American pope.

On Sunday, he will deliver his first noon blessing from the loggia of St. Peter’s and, on Monday, he is to attend an audience ...

Some 6,150 miles away from the Vatican at St. Mary's Basilica in downtown Phoenix, Catholics came together to pray for the Chicago-born pontiff.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in history. Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office ...

A teenager was arrested on suspicion of third-degree felony threat of terrorism after prompting an emergency response at a ...

Attending the funeral of a pope is unlike any other experience. Bidding farewell to the leader of more than a billion ...

Religious observers see a growing number of people abandoning Christian churches in favour of Indigenous spirituality.

The pages of the New Testament placed atop the coffin fluttered in the wind as Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re blessed the coffin with incense and holy water. As he headed to Rome, reporters aboard ...