"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

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

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...

The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.

Prior to his election as Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost's social media activity suggested criticism of President Donald Trump's ...

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

The language barrier has helped maintain an air of unreality around the papacy in the U.S. That is about to change.

"This is more than a Catholic triumph; it’s a cultural watershed for the United States," writes Christopher Hale.

When Villanova President Peter M. Donohue asked the Pope if he would be commencement speaker, the Pope replied, "Very funny." ...

Prior to becoming pope, Prevost has, on several occasions, openly criticised the current US administration – particularly on ...

As the leader of Vatican City, he is the head of a sovereign nation. But maintaining dual citizenship as a foreign head of ...

Pope Leo XIV spoke in Italian and then switched to Spanish, recalling his many years spent as a missionary and then ...