The cardinals are participating in the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history.

The Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the crisis-plagued agency where chronic ...

A social media account under the pope’s name repeatedly criticized the Trump administration — and especially Vice President JD Vance — in the months and years before assuming the papacy. A series of ...

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

History was made in the Vatican Thursday, May 8 as an American was chosen as the first Catholic Pope. India-Pakistan: 125 ...

The first pope from the U.S. was born. On Tuesday, the second day of the conclave, 133 cardinal electors elected U.S.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost has taken the name Leo XIV. The Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ...

The Vatican today (May 8) confirmed that Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is the new pontiff, following the death of Pope ...

But with Catholic Cardinals choosing an American to lead the Church for the first time in its history, that will change. The Chicago-born Robert Prevost, America’s first pope, has a worldview that ...

President Trump welcomed the new pope — though Pope Leo XIV hasn’t always welcomed him.As recently as three weeks ago, Pope ...

In choosing Robert Francis Prevost, the conclave has done what many Vatican insiders considered unthinkable.