Since Robert Prevost is a Chicago native, baseball fans were eager to learn which baseball team the new pontiff supports.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost – now known as Pope Leo XIV — is the first pope from the United States. The 69-year-old from ...

But many people in the square looked puzzled at first, and the complete lack of phone coverage meant that most couldn't look ...

For Catholic theologians, the significance of the name could not be more clear, with the new pope tying himself to one of the ...

On Thursday, Cardinal Robert Prevost became the first American pope, choosing the name Leo XIV. It will take time to get used ...

Pope Leo XIV's first Latin Mass with the College of Cardinals will start on Friday, May 9, 2025 at 11:00 local time (2 p.m.

On Thursday afternoon -- running with a claim by an ABC News reporter -- the Chicago Cubs boasted that Pope Leo XIV was a fan ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV is in a new job that will have many crossovers into politics. It's a realm not entirely unknown to ...

Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops globally, has spent much of his life ...

The first American pope succeeds Francis, preaching peace while confronting Church divides and urgent global crises.

Plumes of white smoke streaming from a Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday signaled that a new leader of the Roman Catholic ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St.