At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle said he was confident that Pope Leo XIV would continue the programs of the late Pope ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

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

This past week, the whole world tuned into the Papal conclave, wherein the next leader of the Catholic Church or the vicar of ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, previously known as Robert Francis Prevost, gave his first ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...

It was initially reported that the new pope was a Cubs fan. The team congratulated Pope Leo XIV in a post on X that had a ...

Leo urged an end to the ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. "I carry in my heart the suffering of the beloved ...

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church of his new country, Peru. In fact, he became a Peruvian citizen,” Canadian ...

The pre-conclave favorite, Italy’s Pietro Parolin had a good number of preferences in the first two votes, but his support ...

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 ...