Pope Leo XIV called Monday for the release of jailed journalists and urged reporters against using words that fan hatred, as ...

For the first time in the history of these two preeminent institutions, their chosen leaders share the same nationality.

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

When white smoke curled into the Roman sky and the world learned that the College of Cardinals had elected Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, Pope Leo XIV--an American--it was met with mixed emotions ...

Political partisanship is likely to become an even more untenable position for American Catholics than it already is.

Excitement rippled through New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday morning, the first since an American was picked ...

Over the course of a day and a half, the more than 130 members of the College of Cardinals had come to a decision on who ...

The St. Joseph Catholic Church in Fayetteville holds first Sunday Mass after new Pope is selected The St. Joseph Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV Sunday called for world peace, an end to conflicts across the globe and "no more war" during his first papal ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, said on Sunday that he thinks Pope Leo XIV will carry forward Francis’s ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...