The 69-year-old will become Leo XIV as he succeeds the late Pope Francis, who brought the Peruvian-American to the Vatican ...

History is made in Vatican City as white smoke rises above the Sistine Chapel, signaling the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV — the first American pontiff in the history of ...

Former San Diego professor witnesses historic election of first American pope after personal journey with Catholic Church ...

Across the nation’s capital, Catholics joyously welcomed the news of the church’s first U.S.-born pope. “I never thought in ...

A New York priest tells the Irish Star he expects conflict between the White House and the Vatican - because the ...

While cardinals this week said they expected a short conclave, it will likely take at least a few rounds of voting.

Father Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago ...

Another longtime friend, the Rev. Robert Hagan, said that Robert Prevost was his mentor and superior when he was studying to become a priest in Racine, Wis., in the late 1990s. They watched Chicago ...

US Catholics flocked to churches across the country in a celebratory mood to mark the "excitement" of the first-ever American ...

It came days after Vance — in discussing critiques of the Trump administration’s immigration policies — in a Fox News ...

Pope Leo XIV has said little publicly about a place in the Catholic Church for gay and transgender people. Some thought the ...

Imagine, for the first time in our history having an American pope. Someone who understands American issues. And he’s also a ...