As Pope Leo XIV settles into his papacy, the three million U.S. Black Catholics contemplate its deeper meaning, as questions ...

The new pontiff is showing he is like everyone else, and that he can preach from both on high to down low. Read more at ...

The 69-year-old former Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in history, has led around two dozen public events since ...

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

Chicago’s elation over the hometown boy’s election led to a huge party for the first U.S. pope, who will begin to chart his ...

The new pope warned of the dangers AI poses to “human dignity, justice and labor.” Two days later, speaking to reporters, he ...

Bennett stressed that Francis encouraged the charismatic renewal, along with other lay movements, like Pope Benedict XVI and ...

After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

Abuse experts and survivors express a mix of tentative hopes and low expectations for how Pope Leo might address disciplining ...

The Vatican on Wednesday, said it appointed Joseph Lin Yuntuan as bishop of Fuzhou under Pope Leo XIV, signaling continued cooperation under the China deal.