Robert Prevost served Peru's rural poor, even if it meant sticking his hands in grease. That is nether the hallmark of a ...

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.

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

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 new pontiff spoke to NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who was part of a news conference for some 6,000 journalists from ...

The Rev. John T. Pawlikowski served as co-founder and director of the school’s Catholic-Jewish Studies Program and also ...

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

Leo’s ascent occurred with remarkable speed. Just over two years ago, he’d been one of the church’s 5,400 bishops — a role ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

Robert Francis Prevost is an American leader who can remind the world what the United States represents at its best.

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 registered to vote in the United States and has previously voted in some Republican primaries, but he is not ...