When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he ...

About 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide have a new spiritual leader: Pope Leo XIV. The election of Robert Francis Prevost, who ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first Pope from the Order of St. Augustine, which suggests he will promote peace and dialogue.

Robert Francis Prevost celebrated his first Mass as Pope Leo XIV one day after his election. Here's what you need to know ...

Among the roughly 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, many are keenly anticipating the upcoming conclave at the Vatican ...

In a digital age, the front pages of print newspapers can still capture a historic moment as they did on Friday with ...

Over the past two millenia, there have only been 267 who have been bestowed the title of Bishop of Rome, or Pope, but on ...

Prevost's background in Latin America and mathematics ... captured the public's tongue-in-cheek curiosity regarding how the new pope would import various cultural quirks to Rome.

Catholic school students and teachers across the Archdiocese of Atlanta assembled in classrooms and cafeterias to watch the ...

His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links Leo XIV to the rich and sometimes overlooked Black Catholic experience in America. By Richard Fausset and Robert ...

The pope’s background was unearthed Thursday by a New Orleans genealogist, Jari C. Honora, and confirmed to The New York ...