Cardinal Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, is the first U.S.-born pope in the Church's history. Here's how readers reacted to ...

Robert F. Prevost, 69, was a longshot selection with extensive missionary experience in Peru and an approach similar to Pope ...

In a landmark ruling, it was one of thousands of pages of documents that a Boston court ordered the Catholic Church to release. Catholic Church A local newspaper, The Boston Globe, had ...

Students at a Catholic elementary school in Dorchester not only witnessed the election of a new pope, but also got to learn<a ...

Robert Prevost of the U.S. is the new Catholic pontiff, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. The Chicago-born cardinal ministered in ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

As cardinals prepare to meet to select the next pope, many are wondering what stance his successor will take on social issues ...

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

Pope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of ...

For Catholic theologians, the significance of the name was evident, with the new pope tying himself to one of the ...