VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, said Friday that his election was both a cross and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass in Sistine Chapel.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago-born missionary, was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic ...

Leo XIV urged the Catholic Church to "desperately" counter a lack of faith in his first homily as pope Friday, a day after ...

During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday (May 9) celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel where he was elected less than 24 hours ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday, a day after his historic election as the first North American pope in the ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first pope from the United States, and the first images of him flooded the airwaves and the internet ...

Yet the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel chose Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native, as the 267th pope of the ...

The CSRA was watching Vatican City along with the rest of the world on Thursday when white smoke billowed from the Sistine ...