Plumes of white smoke streaming from a Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday signaled that a new leader of the Roman Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV's first Latin Mass with the College of Cardinals will start on Friday, May 9, 2025 at 11:00 local time (2 p.m.

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

The conservative ire that has roiled Catholicism during the previous pontificate is likely to continue with this first ...

Before he was chosen, Robert Francis Prevost had the papal seal of approval from his predecessor, Francis, who put him in one ...

Senators on Capitol Hill reacted to the election of Pope Leo XIV as the first American pope, and many voiced excitement about ...

Pope Leo XIV was selected as the first American Pope to lead the Catholic Church. Catholics of all ages in Salisbury ...

The 69-year-old will become Leo XIV as he succeeds the late Pope Francis, who brought the Peruvian-American to the Vatican ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, delivered his first speech as the Catholic Church's newly appointed successor to ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has become the first-ever American elected as the leader of the Catholic Church -- now known by his pontifical name of Pope Leo XIV. The 69-year-old, born on the ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

Robert Francis Prevost attended the Catholic Theological Union from 1977 until 1982, when he graduated with a master's of ...