Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

The Papal conclave has elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new leader of the Catholic Church. Here’s what we know ...

Brazilian Cardinal Leonardo Steiner told America that Pope Leo would carry forward Pope Francis' legacy of synodality in the ...

I, among many Catholics, were surprised once again by the papal conclave election of Pope Leo XIV. I honestly was expecting the election of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle — I ...

University of Dayton Associate Professor of Religious Studies and author of The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular ...

ABC7's Liz Nagy spent almost two weeks reporting from the Vatican as the Catholic Church elected Pope Leo XIV as its next leader. Nagy and an ABC7 crew were sent out to cover the papal conclave. They ...

As with any new papacy, a quick look at their first appointments and audiences inside the system offers at least a small ...

Ever since Pope John XXIII was elected in 1958, the successors of St. Peter have established a pattern: pope as disruptor, ...

Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has officially been named the titular bishop of the Diocese of Albano in Italy — a ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday asked for prayers for China’s Catholics to remain in communion with the Holy See, making his first ...

Pope Leo XIV asked Sunday for prayers for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See, as he made his first public ...

Pope prayed that Catholics in China 'obtain the grace to be strong and joyful witnesses of the Gospel, even in the midst of trials' Pope Leo asked on Sunday for prayers for China's Catholics to be in ...