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Political figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election ...
Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope.
Newsweek Columnist, Vice President of Content at Salem Media Group and host of "Our American Stories" It was the first homily ...
The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...
A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...
Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, has participated in seven separate contests since 2012, including three Republican primaries.
"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.
Some of the cardinals who elected him said his life of service to the poor in Peru and to the church at the Vatican mattered ...
"I know he's not happy with what's going on with immigration," a brother of the new pope said. "I know that for a fact." ...
Last month, the monarch and Queen Camilla met with the late Pope Francis while visiting Rome. On Friday, the royal couple ...
Prelates who voted in the conclave played down the new pope’s American roots. In his first Mass as pontiff, Leo pledged to ...
How Leo confronts the lingering global crisis could be of particular interest to Catholics in the Philadelphia region.