The new pope will preside over an inauguration Mass on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square, according to the Vatican.

It was the most electric thing I have ever experienced inside the walls of a Catholic church,” one protester recalls.

Pope Leo XIV’s American and Peruvian experience offers a compelling moral and economic lens through which to examine the ...

Despite working for years in Peru, where women often lead church communities, he seems noncommittal on whether they could ...

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 now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV gave a homily at a Mass a day after he was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. Here's what the new pontiff said, ...

A new pope has been elected, and in a major surprise, an American has been chosen for the first time. Robert Francis Prevost ...

White smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney at the Vatican, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...