Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior ...

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

As tens of thousands of people gathered in Rome to watch Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV make his first introduction to the world, Milwaukee Catholics rejoiced at a mass at the Cathedral of St. John the ...

We all lost our minds. And we’re still losing our minds,” said Mike Blake, a Villanova University senior who met ...

Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday after cardinals from around the globe chose him to be the first leader ...

Cardinals from around the world chose Robert Francis Prevost to lead the Catholic Church’s 1.4 billion followers, making him ...

A new pope has been elected, and for the first time, he's from the United States. Now, the metro's Catholic community is ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

Thousands of people have gathered in Vatican Square to witness the first appearance of the newly elected pope. White smoke was released from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Thursday evening, ...

St. Joseph students witness history as Pope Leo XIV becomes the first American pontiff. When white smoke appeared over the Vatican, the staff at St. Joseph Catholic School in Fayetteville knew what it ...

Catholic cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday for a second day of voting to try and elect a new pope.