Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass and ...

The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the threats to Peru’s northern forests, a part of the Amazon rain forest.

The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the Big Easy.

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was ...

The Bishop of Alexandria said he was shocked and surprised when the Catholic Church announced a new pope, who was born and raised in the United States.

There were 41,206 people inside what then was known as U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago on Oct . 22, 2005, when the White Sox defeated the Houston Astros 5-3 in G ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost's election as the next head of the Catholic Church could be seen as a surprise to many.

Yes, the new pope is woke. Pope Leo XIV has lifted the spirits of Roman Catholics who live their lives with eyes wide open, ...