ROME - The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first trip outside Rome since being elected as leader of the Catholic Church. The pope was driven to ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

Leo’s ascent occurred with remarkable speed. Just over two years ago, he’d been one of the church’s 5,400 bishops — a role ...

Robert Francis Prevost is an American leader who can remind the world what the United States represents at its best.

The morning after John Prevost watched his younger brother Robert become Pope Leo XIV, he received a familiar phone call.

A formal Mass to mark the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV will take place on May 18 in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced ...

Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual ...

The new pontiff then visited the tomb of Pope Francis and a sanctuary south of Rome on his first trip outside the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV held his first meeting with cardinals since his May 8 election and offered a glimpse into his vision for the Church.

The pope is many things, by definition and as a byproduct of his job description. The bishop of Rome. The worldwide leader of ...