The genealogical findings underline the significance of Pope Leo XIV being not only the first pope from the United States, but also being the first with documented ancestral ties to Louisiana’s ...

The Chicago-born pope had a one-word response when asked if he had anything to say to the people of the United States, which ...

Pope Leo XIV’s election, praising Pope Francis and vowing to continue his work, is a historic moment for the Catholic Church ...

Cardinal Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota who traveled to Rome for the papal conclave, ...

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update had its fun with the headlines this week, including the naming of the new sovereign of ...

That call for accepting immigrants as “angels,” including those who are undocumented, made Francis a political target for ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

Robert Francis Prevost from Chicago became Pope Leo XIV. He is the first American to hold the position. Donald Trump claimed ...

As the first pope from the United States and a dual citizen of America and Peru, Pope Leo XIV — a native of the Windy City — ...

Robert Francis Prevost was a relatively low-profile cardinal from Chicago. But on May 8, the 69-year-old stunned the world ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...