Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that ...

Much of the world’s attention is on the Vatican, where the conclave has begun and cardinals are meeting to select a successor ...

Pope Leo XIV will celebrate his first Mass as pontiff on Friday morning as he ascends to the leadership of 1.4 billion Roman ...

Newly installed Pope Leo XIV will hold a Mass with cardinals in the Sistine Chapel, a day after he was elected as the ...

The newly named Pope Leo XIV has previously condemned abortion and called for gun control.

Robert Prevost, who took the name Pope Leo XIV, is leading his first Mass. The former Augustinian leader is the first ...

The most commonly used name has been John, first chosen in 523 by Saint John I, Pope and martyr. The last pope to choose this ...

When news broke Thursday about Robert Prevost's election as the first American pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, the mood throughout ...

White smoke started billowing from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel in Rome shortly after 18:00 local time (17:00 BST) on ...

How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

The preliminary agreement is the first of dozens of tariff-lowering deals that Trump is trying to land in coming weeks after ...