The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

The 69-year-old chose the papal name Leo XIV, in honor of St. Leo, a fifth-century pontiff known for his devotion to the poor ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

As Pope Leo XIV stepped out in front of cheering crowds outside of St. Peter’s Basilica to give his first speech as head of ...

The first American pope could earn just as much as a U.S. president, but he’ll also enjoy a gilded palace complete with free ...

When still a cardinal, the new pope led discussions on key issues facing the church during which “every voice had equal value ...

The new Pope, Leo XIV, has called in his first Mass at the Vatican for the Catholic Church to "desperately" counter a lack of ...

If the new pope is able to update church teachings on some hot-button issues, it will be because Pope Francis set the stage ...

The school on the suburban Main Line near Philadelphia had reached the pinnacle of men’s college basketball three times, but ...

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.

More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal ...