Robert Prevost is the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. And Prevost's brother, John, ...

American cardinals who participated in the conclave that elected history’s first-ever pope from the United States hailed him ...

In the summer of 1973, the war was still raging in Vietnam, the Watergate scandal was unfolding in Washington, and protests roiled college campuses nationwide. But on leafy Villanova University just ...

Chicago’s South Side was solidly working class during Pope Leo’s childhood, said Rob Paral, a researcher at the Great Cities ...

The mourning period for Roman Catholics around the world is over. White smoke billowed above the Sistine Chapel — a silent ...