Leo, the first American pope, told the cardinals that he was fully committed to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the 1960s meetings that modernized the church. He identified AI as one of the ...

Pope Leo XIV will give his first Sunday noon blessing since being elected as the first U.S.-born pope in the Catholic ...

ROME - The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

Though Leo XIV is from Chicago, his election to the papacy reflects the move of Christianity toward the Global South.

Pope Leo XIV has never been accused of abuse, but has been in positions of authority when accusations of sexual abuse have ...

Leo XIV prayed at the tomb of Pope Francis on Saturday, just two days after being elected new head of the Catholic Church and ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first trip outside Rome since being elected as leader of the Catholic Church. The pope was driven to ...

There is little without precedent in the Catholic Church, but it is fair to say nothing exactly like the election of Pope Leo ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...