When white smoke billowed from the chimneys of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the habemus papam announcement revealed Robert ...

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

White smoke was seen emanating from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, indicating that a two-thirds vote has been reached to ...

The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, ...

The sports loyalties of Pope Leo XIV became a topic of conversation almost as soon as the white smoke emerged from the ...

President Donald Trump reacted to the selection of the new pope and leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday.

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential ...

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's ...

When white smoke rose out of the Vatican on Thursday, Catholics in Roanoke were watching from their screens in delight as ...