Pope Leo XIV has only been in the job one day and already faces a packed schedule of religious services, diplomatic meetings ...

Robert Francis Prevost will lead the Catholic Church as Pope Leo XIV, becoming the first pope to hail from the United States.

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago will succeed Pope Francis as the leader of the Catholic Church. Prevost, the first ...

White smoke poured from a chimney above the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, signaling that the 133 cardinals sequestered inside ...

Leaders around the world have begun congratulating Robert Francis Prevost for being chosen to succeed Pope Francis.

They said there will never be an American pope," the Rev. Michael Alello, of St. Aloysius Catholic Church said on social ...

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

Former Sen. Joe Donnelly, who served as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See and spent a lot of time with Pope Francis, joins TODAY to talk about the conclave choosing Cardinal Robert Prevost as the next ...

The Catholic office overseeing the Gaza church with which the late Pope Francis communicated daily has shared with Newsweek a message following the selection of a new pontiff in the midst of the ...

Pope Francis passed to eternal life April 21 as we began our celebration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution ...

The Catholic Church has a new leader and congratulations are pouring in as Pope Leo XIV prepares to celebrate his first Mass.