News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

Pope Leo was born in the United States, but for his adopted nation of Peru, he is a “Chiclayano” – a son of the bustling ...

Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press” in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on ...

Robert Francis Prevost was a relatively low-profile cardinal from Chicago. But on May 8, the 69-year-old stunned the world ...

Pope Leo XIV championed religious life yesterday in a public address, saying the Church has a "great need" for its priests ...

The last five pontiffs have addressed members of the international news media who reported on the conclaves that elected them.

The church can save some parishes if it allows nuns to do the ‘field hospital’ work Pope Francis talked of. The election of an American pope, Leo XIV, is a fitting culmination of a conclave that had ...

When white smoke curled into the Roman sky and the world learned that the College of Cardinals had elected Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, Pope Leo XIV--an American--it was met with mixed emotions ...

The smoke has settled and everyone in the world now knows the name of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope in history. Now, the faithful across the world and here at home are looking forward to how ...

While many Catholics are celebrating the election, a growing number of online conspiracy theorists are turning their ...

Pope Leo XIV has joined the lineup of the iconic figures at the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, as two Pope Leo bobbleheads were unveiled on Friday, May 9, 2025.

Japanese Cardinal Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo says Pope Leo XIV’s previous work as a missionary and as a Vatican official were ...