ROME - The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

Many sites associated with past popes’ lives have become museums or holy destinations for the faithful. But Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Prevost, a member of the Augustinian religious order, lived for years in Peru first as a missionary and then as an archbishop ...

"It's been an unbelievable week, obviously, for all of us," said Mark Duffey, who was ordained as a deacon at St. Thomas of ...

More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal ...

"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

Cardinals say Leo would continue to speak out against conflict and violence, following the example of Pope Francis ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first person from the United States to lead the Catholic Church, is taking on a financial headache in his ...

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney in Vatican City Thursday as the world gathered to watch a new pope take ...

FROM a budding maths genius in the US to an adventurous missionary in Peru – horse riding Pope Leo XIV has now reached the ...

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born ...

The new pontiff and Bernard Hebda, the archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, have exchanged letters but ...