While he has been to the Philippines several times before he became Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost’s return to the ...

On Thursday afternoon, white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City as Catholics and non-Catholics alike around the world watched with great interest to see who would be chosen as the ...

Political partisanship is likely to become an even more untenable position for American Catholics than it already is.

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 ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

Sport is religion in Chicago. The biggest question locals had here once Cardinal Robert Prevost became the new pope was which ...

Over the course of a day and a half, the more than 130 members of the College of Cardinals had come to a decision on who ...

With the newly elected pope becoming the first from the United States, today was the first Sunday service of his tenure.

In Chicago, New Orleans and beyond, elated worshipers and priests celebrated their immediate sense of connection with Pope ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic ...