Pope Leo XIV has said little publicly about a place in the Catholic Church for gay and transgender people. Some thought the ...

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

Robert Prevost’s election as pope stunned many Catholics skeptical that an American would ever be elevated to that role.

Before he was chosen, Robert Francis Prevost had the papal seal of approval from his predecessor, Francis, who put him in one ...

Father Donohue was busy himself on Thursday. He happened to be in Chicago, the new pope’s hometown, for a Villanova alumni ...

Robert Prevost appears to have previously reposted social media entries that could cause friction with the White House.

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

The old parish church buildings on Chicago's far South Side where Pope Leo XIV grew up, attended grammar school and launched ...

In the Peruvian coastal city of Chiclayo, some 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) from new Pope Leo XIV's hometown of Chicago, ...

The Pennsylvania university best known for its basketball program has a new most famous alumnus in Pope Leo XIV.

F ather Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago ...

A top cardinal announces a new pope has been elected, uttering the words “Habemus papam!” Latin for “We have a pope!” from ...