There were seagulls loitering by the tin chimney at the Vatican as it billowed white smoke heralding the election of Pope Leo XIV the first all-American pope, evocative of land ahoy that seagulls used ...

Come and join the Augustinians! Be a friar, just like Pope Leo XIV.” The invitation, posted recently on the Facebook page of ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, has this in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy: He has been in positions of authority when accusations of sexual abuse ...

Bishop Gerald Kicanas spoke with the new pope just after he was selected, sending him congratulations and prayers.

When he stepped onto the balcony shortly afterwards as Leo XIV, he greeted the more than 100,000 people waiting below with ...

Since returning from the wedding ceremony he attended in Katsina State, the President seems to have developed a renewed ...

"JD Vance is wrong," the future-pope wrote on Feb. 3, echoing the title of the op-ed in the National Catholic Reporter.

Cardinal Robert Prevost has become the first American ever to be elected pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

Catholics around the world are continuing to celebrate the selection of a new leader of the church, including students at ...

A New York Cardinal, Timothy Dolan, was instrumental in the election of Robert Prevost to be Pope Leo XIV. According to il ...

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

When white smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel revealing that a new pope had been chosen, John Prevost turned on his television in Illinois, called his niece and they watched in awe as his ...