ABC News’ Linsey Davis is in Vatican City where Pope Leo XIV has become the first American pontiff in the Catholic Church’s ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a US-born missionary and senior Vatican official, was elected pope on Thursday evening, becoming the ...

Born in Chicago in 1955, Prevost carved out a career in the church soon after leaving school. He studied mathematics at Villanova before going on to join the Order of St Augustine and being ordained ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful ...

The historic choice came as a surprise to some, including Lincoln Bishop James D. Conley, who said he was “shocked but ...

The sports loyalties of Pope Leo XIV became a topic of conversation almost as soon as the white smoke emerged from the ...

As the world watched the white smoke rise over Vatican City, signaling the announcement of a new pope, Catholic communities ...

Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches, cheered from classrooms and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, left, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's ...

It came days after Vance — in discussing critiques of the Trump administration’s immigration policies — in a Fox News ...

The newly-elected Pope Leo XIV's brother admitted to a piece of advice he offered before the conclave that could have changed ...

Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami expressed support for Pope Leo XIV, saying he is prepared to lead the Church's faithful. He ...