On top of the weighty tasks assumed by Pope Leo XIV upon his election as pontiff, the Middle East's most senior churchmen ...

Habemus Papam.” “I announce to you a great joy: We have a Pope.” On Thursday, May 8, 2025, with that famous Latin formula, ...

A personal account of the new Pope's pastoral humility and personal warmth has come from one of his former altar servers, who ...

Mao kana si Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, karon nagdala sa ngalan Pope Leo XIV, natawo sa Chicago, Illinois, of mixed heritage; his father, Louis Marius Prevost, was of French and Italian descent, ...

Key dates in life and ministry. From Chicago to Peru, serving as bishop and then prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops.

Pope Leo XIV used his first diplomatic audience to call on world governments to respect the dignity of migrants—a stark ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...

A new global streaming platform for faith-driven content will launch worldwide May 28 and serve as the exclusive streaming ...

American Catholics rejoice as Cardinal Robert F. Prevost from Chicago is elected as Pope Leo XIV, the first American to lead ...

Discover the reaction of Arkansas Catholics to the historic appointment of Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pope in the ...

A registered Republican in Illinois, Prevost can walk both sides of the aisle, talking with both progressives and conservatives. Not that he was a compromise candidate. It would have taken more than ...

Habemus Papam! We have a new pope. Can there be any phrase more joyful to the Catholic ear? And now all eyes will be on him, watching and waiting to see the direction this new successor to Peter will ...