Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, has surprised the world not just with his historic election—but with his ...

New York celebrates the election of the first American pope, Cardinal Prevost, with a spontaneous gathering at St. Patrick's ...

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

In his first mass as the new leader of the Catholic Church on Friday, Pope Leo XIV warned that losing one's faith can have ...

The sports loyalties of Pope Leo XIV became a topic of conversation almost as soon as the white smoke emerged from the ...

After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a pope had been chosen, students in every ...

"I think people will be very impressed with him," he said of the new pope, who graduated from Villanova University in 1977.

The inauguration Mass on May 18 will be the formal installation ceremony where Pope Leo XIV will receive the Fisherman’s Ring and the pallium as symbols of his papal office. The “taking possession” ...

The trip, planned over a year ago, was meant to be a visit to the holiest place of their Catholic faith. Vaskov described the ...

The trip, planned over a year ago, was meant to be a visit to the holiest place of their Catholic faith. Vaskov described the ...

As the Catholic world celebrates the election of the first-ever American pontiff, one South Carolina family is remembering their own “miraculous” connection with the late Pope Francis.

Pope Leo XIV greeted the adoring crowd in St. Peter's Square in his new papal robes. Pope Leo is the first American to ever ...