"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

A plume of white smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling a new pope has been selected following Francis’ death.

On a sweltering January day in 2018, Pope Francis addressed 100,000 of the faithful in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, not far from where gold mining had ravaged an expanse of Amazon rainforest about the size of Colorado.

The new pontiff spoke to NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who was part of a news conference for some 6,000 journalists from around the world.

The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.

Pope Leo XIV met with journalists in Rome He spoke on freedom of speech, freedom of press Unity and peace were recurring themes NewsNation’s Robert Sherman asked Leo if he had a message for the United States. “May God bless you all,” Leo answered ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

The school's students and staff expressed shock and excitement following the recent election of the first-ever American pope.