ROME - The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

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 head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter’s Basilica ...

Prevost, a member of the Augustinian religious order, lived for years in Peru first as a missionary and then as an archbishop ...

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...

The name Leo means “lion” in Latin, signaling bravery and strength. In the Catholic legacy, it also calls back to the first ...

Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

Will the adage 'fat pope, thin pope' bear out as cardinals pick a successor to Pope Francis in the May 7 conclave?

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

One day after Pope Leo XIV was introduced to the world, some young Catholics and educators in the church here in South ...