In a jubilant atmosphere, more than 10,000 faithful gathered in front of the Basilica and Cathedral of Santa María de ...

The Papal conclave has elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new leader of the Catholic Church. Here’s what we know ...

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church of his new country, Peru. In fact, he became a Peruvian citizen,” Canadian ...

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

When Pope Leo XIV dined out as a bishop in the Peruvian town of Chiclayo, his appetite was big and his tips came in the form ...

“I was talking to a friend of mine, an Augustinian, and after the ceremony we talked to each other and said, 'You know, he could become Pope,'” Barker said. Just two years later, his friend Bob, was ...

Archbishop of Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich said the selection of Pope Leo XIV fits into the current political landscape, especially when considering the Trump administration. During Leo XIV’s papacy, ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...

Pope Leo XIV called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of hostages and delivery of humanitarian aid in his first Sunday noon blessing as ...

Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.