Born in the U.S., forged in Peru, chosen in Rome, Leo XIV will helm a church facing debt, division and decline ...

Only days into his papacy, London's Catholic faithful are expressing hope and cautious optimism about the future of the Roman ...

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.

To discuss the implications of Robert Prevost’s election as pope, for both the church and for the world’s 1.4 billion ...

US Catholicism knows Jews well, and that familiarity may pave the way for the new pope to improve Jewish-Catholic relations, ...

Pope Leo XIV says the Church needs the Christian East and has a “great need to recover the sense of mystery that remains ...

The U.S. State Department says it generally presumes that U.S. citizens, even if they accept a foreign government post, want ...

I don’t think he is going to go, pull the church hard left,” Prevost also said. “I think he’s going to be down the middle.” ...

It still may be hard to believe, but the new pope is from Chicago. In just a few days, those who consider Pope Leo XIV their ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

The new supreme pontiff, elected less than a week ago, is expected by some to continue Pope Francis' legacy, while those more ...

The school's students and staff expressed shock and excitement following the recent election of the first-ever American pope.