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

His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links Leo XIV to the rich and sometimes overlooked ...

The election of the first ever American to the papacy is giving New York Knicks fans feelings of divine right ahead of the ...

Dolan spoke about the new Pope to CNN's Erin Burnett. “Exhausting. That’s a good sense,” he said of how he was feeling.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said on Friday he thought the new U.S. pontiff, Pope Leo, will seek to build bridges with all ...

US Cardinal Timothy Dolan has said President Donald Trump's posting of an AI-generated photo showing himself as the pope ...

The New York Times reported on the pope’s maternal African heritage only because a Black New Orleans genealogist by the name ...

This selection comes after two days of conclave in the Sistine Chapel, tying the modern record for the fastest selection of a ...