NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Catholics across Nashville anxiously waited Thursday to see who would be selected as pope. Robert Prevost was chosen becoming the first American-born leader of the Catholic ...

Catholic cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday for a second day of voting to try and elect a new pope.

In a historic moment for the Catholic Church, Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has been elected as the first ...

University of Central Arkansas professor, Clayton Crockett, said Pope Leo XIV will continue the legacy of Pope Francis.

The election of the first American pope in history was cause for celebration inside Saint James Cathedral Thursday.

The 69-year-old will become Leo XIV as he succeeds the late Pope Francis, who brought the Peruvian-American to the Vatican ...

Robert Prevost was brought to the Vatican in 2023 by Pope Francis as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop ...

Leaders called the decision from the conclave “a powerful moment for the Catholic Church — and for American Catholics.” ...

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior ...

"When I heard the name, I said there's no way we have an American pope," a local priest says. But it's true: Robert Prevost, ...

Thousands of people have gathered in Vatican Square to witness the first appearance of the newly elected pope. White smoke was released from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Thursday evening, ...

In casting himself as supreme leader and pope, Donald Trump inadvertently invoked the Christian understanding of the ...