Pope Leo XIV will celebrate mass Friday, the day after becoming the first US head of the Catholic Church, with the world ...

Catholic cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday for a second day of voting to try and elect a new pope.

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior ...

Thousands of people have gathered in Vatican Square to witness the first appearance of the newly elected pope. White smoke was released from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Thursday evening, ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, said in a post to X on Wednesday that he and the other North American cardinals will bring the "in ...

Let us keep in our ears the weak voice of Pope Francis that blesses Rome,” Leo said during his address on Thursday. “The Pope ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

Catholic cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel for a second day of voting to try and elect a new pope. VATICAN CITY ...

VILLANOVA, Pa. (WPVI) -- American Cardinal Robert Prevost, now named Pope Leo XIV, has a strong tie to the Philadelphia region. Prevost, a 69-year-old from Chicago, graduated from Villanova University ...

Pope Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome after Cardinal Protodeacon Dominique Mamberti ...

After the white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney on Thursday, all across the world, learning the Catholic Church ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has become the first-ever American elected as the leader of the Catholic Church -- now known by his pontifical name of Pope Leo XIV. The 69-year-old, born on the ...