After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

University of Dayton Associate Professor of Religious Studies and author of The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular ...

When I first read the news in Facebook that Pope Leo XIV, an American-born clergyman, had ascended to the papacy, I knew that the Catholic Church had entered a ...

One of the greatest challenges facing Pope Leo XIV is financial. He has inherited the Holy See’s chronic, 50 million to 60 ...

The Issue: The election of American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the next pope of the Catholic Church. We now have an American pope in Robert Francis Prevost (“Chicago pope,” May 9).

Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as ...

The first American pope, Leo XIV, is expected to bring a ... To take that stance (against those laws), absolutely it has political implications, but it's not a political stance," Flowers said.

“I also laughed out loud simultaneously, for the possibility of an American being elected had been preventively ... Both Eire and McNulty discussed the various implications that the election of Pope ...

The first American pope is succeeding a church leader whose ... and comfortable with the larger implications of Trump's attacks on stability, the rule of law, etc." Trump, for his part, issued ...

his math degree from Villanova and the possible implications for sports teams. Here’s a look at some of the internet’s funniest memes and tweets about the new pope.