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

"It's a great thing for the United States and for the world," she said.

The new pope echoed themes that Francis, his predecessor, regularly addressed, as he appeared in front of thousands of the ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, previously known as Robert Francis Prevost, gave his first ...

It was initially reported that the new pope was a Cubs fan. The team congratulated Pope Leo XIV in a post on X that had a ...

Pope Leo XIV led the Regina caeli prayer — often spoken during the time between Easter Sunday and Pentecost — in St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday, May 11. The pontiff, who was elected on May 8 after a ...

Pope Leo XIV today leads the Regina Coeli prayer from the central loggia of St Peter’s Basilica. The new Pope who celebrated ...

Former Mayor of Waterford, Cllr Damien Geoghegan has recalled on X (Twitter) a Waterford connection with newly elected Pope ...

Francis, the first Latin American pope, clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw him as his heir apparent.

Robert Prevost, a tennis-loving, Wordle-playing White Sox fan from Chicago, is now leader of the world's nearly 1.5 billion Catholics. Vatican observers describe what the election of Leo XIV, the ...

One of the biggest challenges Pope Leo XIV faces has to do with whether the Church should be more welcoming towards the LGBT ...