Vatican City — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born ...

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

migrants and a more open church, many people see the new pope as a continuation of his predecessor. Seeing the First American Pope as Hardly American: Catholics around the world were skeptical at ...

Pope Leo XIV held his first public ... saying the church stood in solidarity with them for "seeking the truth" and calling for imprisoned journalists around the world to be released.

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, ...

migrants and a more open church, many people see the new pope as a continuation of his predecessor. Seeing the First American Pope as Hardly American: Catholics around the world were skeptical at ...

the Vatican announced the day after stunning the world with the election of the first pope from the United States in the Church's history. Leo, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ...

Pope Leo XIV has promised to make the Catholic Church a balm for the world’s “dark nights”, as he celebrated his first mass as pontiff less than 24 hours after being elected. Sixty-nine-year ...

In his first appearance to the world as pope Thursday evening ... new pontiff signaled he also may want to continue to take the Church in the same direction. During his homily Friday, the pontiff ...

warning of the dangers caused by a lack of faith and hoping the Catholic Church could be a beacon lighting the world’s “dark nights.” Leo, the former Cardinal Robert Prevost and the first U ...