Speakers blasted songs including “Born in the U.S.A.” and “American Pie” as six cardinal electors from the United States ...

The people of northern Peru call him el obispo. Sometimes he is also Padre Prevost. Maybe when the shock wears off, they will get used to his new title, Pope Leo XIV. Waiters, taxi drivers, teachers ...

Scrutiny about the way the latest pope might run the Catholic Church started the moment he stepped on to the balcony.

Pope Leo XIV, in remarks in 2012 when he was the Augustinian prior general in Chicago, made comments critical of what he called the “homosexual lifestyle” and the role of mass media in promoting ...

“DA POPE!” blared the front of the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday, one of countless spins on the city’s unique accent, ...

Jalen Brunson and Pope Leo XIV are both Chicago kids who attended Villanova, so it only makes sense that the new Pope watches ...

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich participated in the conclave that elected Robert Prevost to lead the Catholic Church as pope.

When Pope Leo XIV was elected as the late Pope Francis’ successor, Harry Styles was one of the many in the crowd present for ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost from Phoenix is named Pope Leo XIV, sparking excitement in the local Catholic community and ...

Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the first pope from the United States. But in Peru, he is known as ...

Bishop Thomas Daly, of the Diocese of Spokane, learned that the cardinals had picked the first American pope while Daly was anchored in a dentist's chair, getting his teeth cleaned.

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until the explosive sex-abuse scandal exposed by the Boston Globe in 2002 in the ...