Pope Leo XIV’s focus on refugees and his pluralistic background may offer a different view of U.S. values from the ...

Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín, who welcomed the decision to fly flags at half-mast over public buildings, said there should be an official period of mourning, pointing to steps taken in Spain, Cuba and ...

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

Speakers blasted songs including “Born in the U.S.A.” and “American Pie” as six cardinal electors from the United States ...

The morning after John Prevost watched his younger brother Robert become Pope Leo XIV, he received a familiar phone call.

The post also showed how much more secular Americans have become since John F. Kennedy, the nation’s first Catholic president ...

Robert Francis Prevost, who was born in Chicago and attended Villanova University, was elected as the new pope on Thursday ...

President Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social Monday – following news of Pope Francis's death – that he and ...

Chicago residents were ecstatic about the first North American pope, Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to the papacy on Thursday.

Pope Leo made his first trip outside of the Vatican, stopping at the tomb of his predecessor, Pope Francis, laying a single white rose.

Following the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pontiff elected from the U.S., American cardinals shared their reaction to the new leader of the church.

While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of ...