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

Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church, but ...

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

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

Over in the Apostolic Palace - now unsealed - Robert Prevost held a moment of private prayer. Then, for the first time, he re ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

Pope Leo XIV says Catholic Church must illuminate 'dark nights of this world' in first Mass - Friday’s service comes a day ...

While Pope Leo XIV agrees that AI helped him pick up his name, he identifies AI as a challenge to the human dignity.

Pope Leo XIV 's choice of name signals a commitment to social justice that is very much in line with the late Pope Francis ' ...

Gerard O'Connell speaks to Colleen Dulle and Sam Sawyer, SJ about the unexpectedly quick election of Pope Leo XIV.

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong also wrote to the new pope to congratulate him.

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first mass as leader of the world's Roman Catholics. He prayed that the church could serve as a ...