The election of the first US pope is a godsend to businesses in Rome, as big-spending pilgrims flocking to the Vatican are ...

COMMENTARY: Pope Leo XIV is the first true missionary to lead the Catholic Church since Christ chose St. Peter.

No sooner had the first American pope been selected Thursday than a modern tradition unfolded: the scrubbing of Robert Francis Prevost’s X feed. Previously a little-known cardinal from the Chicago ...

Nothing compares to the pageantry of a papal election, not the coronation of a British monarch, a presidential inauguration ...

The 19th reports that newly elected Pope Leo XIV, the first American to hold the papacy—as well as the first Peruvian citizen ...

As a Chicagoan who teaches at Villanova University, it was surreal for me to watch the election of Cardinal Robert Francis ...

The new pope's eldest brother has come under scrutiny for inflammatory political posts—here's what we know about him.

Conclave is over and we have a new pope. We have highlighted some of the best reactions on the internet to Pope Leo XIV.

The digitally altered video claims the pope called Trump's policies "a hideous manifestation of white supremacist ideology." ...

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The White House announced on Thursday that Vice President JD Vance will travel to Vatican City to attend the inaugural Mass of Pope Leo XIV this weekend. Vance will lead a U.S. delegation that ...