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.

Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world ... Catholic Church on Thursday and took the name Pope Leo XIV, is the first pope from the ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

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 ...

During his first speech as pope from the loggia ... helping find men who shared Francis’s vision to lead the Church around the world. In that role, he was not known for public interventions ...

His childhood church and school ... logistical hurdles to clear before the next pontiff is revealed to the world. First, the cardinal elected pope must accept the role. Notably, in the August ...

One of the moments that stood out in Pope Leo's first Mass as pontiff was a moment when he said that the Church could help illuminate the "dark nights of this world". Here's that full quote in ...