From priest to pope—will his missionary past define him as the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics, or will Pope Leo become ...

As the dust settles after the conclave, Br Mark O’Connor reflects on Pope Leo XIV’s quiet authority, the unfinished business ...

Occasionally they remember to call him by his new name, Pope Leo XIV, but it’s unfamiliar to their tongue. One of the guests ...

Catholic organizations had lobbied Pat Quinn to end the death penalty. The former governor was not previously aware of Prevost’s message to him.

Robert Prevost, elected pope Thursday, grew up in Dolton. Former neighbors and local Catholics reacted to the election of the first American pontiff in the church's 2,000-year history.

Pope Leo XIV stunned onlookers in St. Peter’s Square with an unexpected wardrobe twist, swapping his traditional zucchetto for a Chicago White Sox baseball cap. The American-born pontiff made the ...

The election of an American pope—and the nation’s warm reaction to it—is also a fitting coda to two centuries of anti-Catholic animus in American society.

Jetlagged but excited, Pope Leo XIV’s brother John Prevost is catching up on daily life after a whirlwind few days in the Vatican.

I had read about this Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, because he was on all of the lists of papabile — men in danger of being chosen to succeed Francis.

With the election of Pope Leo XIV as the head of the Catholic church, all eyes turned to his family. The youngest son of Louis and Mildred Prevost, Pope Leo has two older brothers: John Joseph ...

As the veil lifts on the secretive proceedings of the papal conclave, a cardinal has offered a rare glimpse into the moment Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the leader ...