Chicago residents were ecstatic about the first North American pope, Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to the papacy on Thursday.

An Omaha native now reports in the Holy See. She's been in Rome since 2016 and has had the opportunity to cover the recent ...

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 ...

Following in the footsteps of his predecessors, Leo, the first American pope, is expected to deliver remarks to members of ...

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

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

Pope Leo XIV will meet more than 6,000 journalists and media workers on Monday (May 12) in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, just days after his election. It has become a common practice with new popes ...

In Peru, Pope Leo XIV is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded the region, ...

I, too, address the world's great powers by repeating the ever-present call: ‘never again war,’” Leo said from the loggia of ...

Robert Prevost, a tennis-loving, Wordle-playing White Sox fan from Chicago, is now leader of the world's nearly 1.5 billion Catholics. Vatican observers describe what the election of Leo XIV, the ...

This pope will make mistakes; don’t we all? But on this day, Melinda Henneberger looks to him with great hope. | Opinion ...

Leo, the first American pope, told the cardinals that he was fully committed to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the 1960s meetings that modernized the church. He identified AI as one of the ...