VATICAN CITY (RNS) — When Cardinal Robert Prevost emerged from the loggia of St. Peter’s as Pope Leo XIV on Thursday (May 8), ...

Pope Francis stepped down after a long period of ill health, leaving the Catholic Church to select a new leader. In a ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago in 1955, became a novitiate in the Order of St. Augustine at age 22 after graduating from ...

The celebration vibrated with joy following the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost Martínez — both a U.S. and ...

GRAPEVINE, Texas - A Grapevine deli owner is honoring the new pope, who just happens to be his former schoolmate. Dan ...

Cardinal Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota who traveled to Rome for the papal conclave, ...

Pope Leo XIV's former diocese reacted with jubilation when it was announced that their former bishop had been named the new head of the Catholic Church, and it was all captured on video.

During her show on Friday, the conservative podcast host said she wasn’t surprised that the new pope had disapproved of ...

"Bishop Prevost was never the kind of bishop who gave orders from behind a desk," said Janinna Sesa Córdova, who led Caritas ...

The Rev. John T. Pawlikowski served as co-founder and director of the school’s Catholic-Jewish Studies Program and also ...

While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of ...

NBC News’ Savannah Sellers interviewed Pope Leo XIV’s brother, Louis Prevost, about how he felt when his sibling was elected leader of the Catholic Church. Prevost also spoke about what he’s expecting ...