President Donald Trump said the selection of Cardinal Robert F. Prevost to be pope is "a great honor" for the U.S., noting he ...

Former President Obama congratulated Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, on his selection as the next pontiff for the Roman ...

White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected as the pope of the Catholic Church, taking the name Leo ...

White smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney at the Vatican, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the ...

Prevost, a 69 member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. He appeared on the loggia of St. Peter’s ...

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

In choosing Robert Francis Prevost, the conclave has done what many Vatican insiders considered unthinkable.

Catholics around the world have a new pope, and American Catholics have a connection with the pontiff they’ve never had ...

Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

Across the country, Catholics and non-Catholics alike greeted Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV with reverence and satisfaction.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — On the second day of the conclave, Cardinals elected 69-year-old Robert Francis Prevost as the new ...