In his advocacy of the poor, migrants and a more open church, many people see the new pope as a continuation of his ...

After celebrating his first Mass as pope, Leo XIV is slated to have a full schedule in the coming days. His next engagement is expected to be a May 10 meeting with cardinals. He'll then have midday ...

Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope.

Pope Leo XIV, who became the worldwide leader for more than 1 billion Catholics on Thursday, earned an honorary degree from a ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first mass in the Sistine Chapel, where he was elected less than 24 hours earlier. He prayed that ...

Here’s what we know so far about Pope Leo’s inauguration Mass. The inauguration Mass is due to take place on Sunday, May 18, ...

Calif., said Friday that she hopes the newly elected Pope Leo XIV will be vocal about opposing mass deportation.

Standing beneath Michelangelo’s towering fresco of the Last Judgement, newly elected Pope Leo XIV delivered his first papal ...

Francis, the first Latin American pope, clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw him as his heir apparent. He sent ...

Leo XIV held his first Mass as pope in the Sistine Chapel on Friday, in what was a private service for the 132 voting ...

The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church's 267th pope had special meaning for a ...