Hagan said that while Prevost, a dark-horse candidate, was chosen to be the first-ever American-born Pope by the College of ...

In selecting Prevost, the Conclave appears to be betting that his mixed identity—a Pope both of America and the world—will ...

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

It came days after Vance — in discussing critiques of the Trump administration’s immigration policies — in a Fox News ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

About 24 hours after the conclave started, the world was introduced to the Catholic Church’s new pope. Pope Leo XIV, the ...

Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, has spent much of his ...

The Pennsylvania university best known for its basketball program has a new most famous alumnus in Pope Leo XIV.

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers, were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...

His selection sparked a wave of congratulatory statements underscoring the significance of his American heritage and deep ...

Robert Francis Prevost was chosen on Thursday, May 8, to succeed Pope Francis as the head of the Catholic Church.

A man holds a placard reading "Habemus Papa" (We Have a Pope) after white smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel ...