In his first official address as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV shared a surprising influence behind his chosen name: artificial ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited Pope Leo XIV to Ukraine. During their first phone chat, Zelensky thanked ...

Erik Pohlmeier, bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine, is one of many welcoming Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a ...

Robert Francis Prevost from Chicago became Pope Leo XIV. He is the first American to hold the position. Donald Trump claimed ...

POPE Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of St ... about choosing a cardinal from the US for fear of too much American influence in the church. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Prevost joined a Catholic ...

To understand Pope Leo XIV, look to his namesake, says Ward Fitzgerald, a Philly area businessman who helps raise money for ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 ...

The man who is now known as Leo XIV becomes the 267th Bishop of Rome and the successor to Francis, one of the most liberal ...

The selection of Robert Prevost surprised outside observers. But as other contenders fell away, one after another, the ...

Trump, who hailed the appointment, calling the arrival of the first American pope “a great honor for our country,” seldom saw ...

Follow live coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a ...

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