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

Becoming pope was a big deal for a cardinal and his family. Leading candidates known as papabili (pope-ables) began ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, celebrated his first Mass as pontiff on Friday, presiding in the Sistine ...

Just hours after being elected the Catholic Church’s 277th pontiff, Pope Leo XIV has three appointments on his agenda ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, said in a post to X on Wednesday that he and the other North American cardinals will bring the "in ...

Of all the ceremonies associated with electing a new pope, the one most familiar to the general public is the smoke that emanates from a stovepipe chi ...

As tens of thousands of people gathered in Rome to watch Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV make his first introduction to the world, Milwaukee Catholics rejoiced at a mass at the Cathedral of St. John the ...

Pope Leo XIV delivered a message of hope, unity, and peace in his first public address as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church.