The longest conclave since the 20th century began took 14 rounds of balloting across five days, ending with the election of ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

Taking the name Leo XIV, the American was elected to be the 267th pontiff and spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.

After a relatively short conclave, our reporter was with the crowd in St. Peter's Square at they got their first glimpse of ...

Following the death of Pope Francis at 88, the conclave elected a new pope fairly quickly. Get updates on who the new pontiff ...

A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th ...

We have a pope! I join with Catholics in the Archdiocese of Boston and throughout the world, along with people of good will, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

Vatican City — White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled ...

Prevost, a U.S. native and naturalized citizen of Peru, spent his childhood growing up in Chicago. Here's what we know about ...

American Robert Prevost has become the 267th pope after more than two-thirds of the cardinals voted for him to succeed the ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first North American pope and will be known as Pope Leo XIV.After he was unveiled as the ...