Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass on Sunday near the tomb of St. Peter, hours before he was to deliver his first Sunday noon ...

Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.

During a press conference with American cardinals on Friday, Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, said he did not think the fact that Pope Leo was from the United States "carried much weight" in the ...

The first American Pope was elected to lead the Catholic Church on Thursday, and the Catholic Community in New Orleans is ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...

Though he spent much of his life abroad, the new Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, hails from the Chicago area, ...

The United States is home to 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That's more than any other nation ...

VATICAN CITY -- The conclave to elect the 267th pope and successor to Pope Francis gets underway Wednesday. In total, 133 cardinals will be voting during this conclave, the most electors ever, with ...

New Orleans Roman Catholics are diverse and have mixed views on what they want to see in the next pope, whose selection will ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost joins the conclave Wednesday to pick Pope Francis' successor. His rise in the faith began at a South Side church. "Even as a young teenager, he knew what he wanted to do and ...

A mass shooting allegedly carried out by the son of a local deputy sheriff with her old service weapon left two people dead at a university in Florida, police in the southeastern US state said ...

Hundreds of thousands of mourners and dozens of world leaders and dignitaries packed St. Peter's Square in Rome for the funeral. After the Mass ... University, Boston College, St. Louis University ...