Prior to his election as Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost's social media activity suggested criticism of President Donald Trump's ...

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope.

Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, has participated in seven separate contests since 2012, including three Republican primaries.

Robert Prevost, the latest — and first American — pope was raised in the Chicago area, where his childhood home was recently ...

After Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.

Political figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel where he was elected less than 24 hours earlier, warning of the ...

The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.

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

Pope Leo XIV is the first pope who belongs to the Order of Saint Augustine, whose principles, priests say, offer a window ...

Pope Leo XIV is facing criticism from survivors over his record on clergy sexual abuse while he served in Chicago and Peru.