Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic ...

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

A résumé of deep religious education, frontline pastoral experience, parish management and Vatican governance — along with a ...

Pope Leo XIV holds his first general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, issuing an appeal for Gaza, which he calls ...

COMMENTARY: This text reveals a man thoroughly drenched in Augustine’s theology and spirituality, in particular his ...

"He’s the one who gave me permission” to stay at a Hyde Park monastery in 2000, former priest James M. Ray told the Chicago ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse amplified calls Tuesday for a global zero-tolerance policy from the new ...

His story is a call to hope and a challenge to the Church in India to see finally and fully those it has failed to embrace ...

Pope Leo XIV persuaded the Arizona clergyman to return from his retirement as urgent appointments were being made earlier ...

Meet Donna, who lives next door to Pope Leo XIV's childhood home in Dolton, IL. She says the home was recently a hub of drug ...

Photos of "a pope in muddy boots" began circulating on social media shortly after Cardinal Robert Prevost was introduced as Pope Leo XIV. The story behind the images tells of a pastor in close kinship ...