Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

The 69-year-old will become Leo XIV as he succeeds the late Pope Francis, who brought the Peruvian-American to the Vatican ...

The United States was often deemed too powerful — militarily, diplomatically, and even culturally — for one of its own to ...

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior ...

Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches, cheered from classrooms and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision ...

For the first time in nearly 2,000 years, the Catholic Church has elected an American pope. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, ...

As Leo prepares for his first mass as leader of the Catholic Church, his brothers have revealed a game of Wordle was one of ...

The election came on the first full day of voting by the 133 cardinal electors, who secluded themselves behind the Vatican's ...

Robert Prevost was brought to the Vatican in 2023 by Pope Francis as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop ...

When news broke Thursday about Robert Prevost's election as the first American pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, the mood throughout ...

A photo shared by the Chicago Sun-Times shows Pope Leo XIV attending the 2005 World Series, where the White Sox defeated the ...

From the Marquette University campus to the bell tower at Old St. Mary's Church downtown, Milwaukee celebrated the election ...