Philadelphia woman confirmed by Pope Leo XIV in Peru says she prays for pontiff daily 02:01. As the world looks to the future ...

Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost has gone by “Bob” for most of his life. On Thursday, the 69-year-old became Pope Leo ...

The celebration vibrated with joy following the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost Martínez — both a U.S. and ...

New pope's deliberate decision to identify with Peru in particular and the Global South generally is no accident ...

His election reflects a Church that is not shrinking but expanding — a Church alive in every corner of the world, including ...

While posturing as a reformer, Prevost was selected to further the Church’s alliance with capital and protect its own ...

The new pope’s status as an American shocked me, and I immediately began to consider the politics and symbolism of the choice.

Catholics in Pittsburgh joined together in a Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Patrick Cathedral to rejoice in the election of their new leader, Pope Leo XIV.

Church leaders in Ireland have paid tribute to Pope Leo’s pastoral experience in the peripheries of the Church and his ...

The ecumenical patriarch, who had hoped to visit Iznik, Turkey, with Pope Francis in May to mark the 1,700th anniversary of ...

Standing on loggia of St. Peter’s basilica, newly elected Pope Leo XIV smiled, waved and appeared to hold back emotion May 8 ...

The Order of St. Augustine, with fewer than 3,000 members, shaped the man who would become a cardinal, and then pope to the ...