At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

An Omaha native now reports in the Holy See. She's been in Rome since 2016 and has had the opportunity to cover the recent ...

Leo urged an end to the ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. "I carry in my heart the suffering of the beloved ...

Following in the footsteps of his predecessors, Leo, the first American pope, is expected to deliver remarks to members of ...

Chicago residents were ecstatic about the first North American pope, Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to the papacy on Thursday.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...

Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

The church can save some parishes if it allows nuns to do the ‘field hospital’ work Pope Francis talked of. The election of an American pope, Leo XIV, is a fitting culmination of a conclave that had ...

All eyes were on Rome as Pope Leo XIV was announced. But to secure the future of the faith, Catholics should look closer to ...

Pope Leo XIV will meet more than 6,000 journalists and media workers on Monday (May 12) in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, just days after his election. It has become a common practice with new popes ...

Pope Francis passed away peacefully at 7:35 a.m. in his room at Casa Santa Marta, a Vatican guesthouse where he chose to live instead of the Apostolic Palace since his election as Pope in 2013. He had ...

In Peru, Pope Leo XIV is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded the region, ...