While Pope Leo XIV presides over a flock of 1.4 billion people from within Vatican City, there’s one worldly responsibility he may not escape: Uncle Sam.

The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the ...

Pope Leo XIV may have broken a historic barrier by becoming the first pontiff from the United States, but his views on the ...

The Episcopal Church is refusing to help the Trump administration resettle white South African “refugees,” ending a ...

When I heard that the newly elected Pope had taken the name Leo XIV, I was not surprised. The answer was in the latter part of and around 1890. Pope Leo XIII was in communication with Cardinal Gibbons ...

Pope Leo XIV is both the first American pope and the first boomer pope, and any projections about what his papacy will look like are premature right now.

The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame in Milwaukee released bobbleheads of Pope Leo XIV, the first US-born pope, joining a ...

Pope Leo XIV made history as the first American pope in the many centuries since Catholicism was introduced to the U.S. As ...

When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected the new pope on May 8, he became Pope Leo XIV, making the spotlight shine a ...

Hamas on Monday released Edan Alexander, the last known living American hostage in Gaza after 18 months in captivity.

Pope Leo XIV's devotion to St. Augustine, his life and ministry as a member of the Augustinian order and his focus on the ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago in 1955, became a novitiate in the Order of St. Augustine at age 22 after graduating from ...