White smoke poured from a chimney above the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, signaling that the 133 cardinals sequestered inside ...

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

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

F ather Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago ...

Robert Francis Prevost was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, becoming the first pope from the ...

The new pontiff has taken the name Leo XIV and will be the first American pope in history.

This selection comes after two days of conclave in the Sistine Chapel, tying the modern record for the fastest selection of a ...

The earliest clues suggest Leo could champion inclusion and openness to change — like his predecessor, Pope Francis.

Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday. How does his stance on LGBTQ+ issues compare to his predecessor's?

White smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday signaled that a conclave of cardinals have selected a new pope: ...

The cardinals are shut off from the world for the secretive voting that will result in new leadership for the world's 1.4 ...