The new pope, speaking to thousands in St. Peter’s Square, echoed themes that Francis, his predecessor, regularly addressed.

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

After sending congratulations to his St. Mary of the Assumption School classmate, Cobb man got a thank you message with a dual signoff — Bob Prevost and Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, previously known as Robert Francis Prevost, gave his first ...

Robert Prevost, a tennis-loving, Wordle-playing White Sox fan from Chicago, is now leader of the world's nearly 1.5 billion Catholics. Vatican observers describe what the election of Leo XIV, the ...

Nobody does drama like the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church,” said Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked at a news briefing about the pope's X account and his posts that shared criticism of Trump and Vance's policies. The conference brought cardinals ...

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

In a moment bathed in the golden light of the Sistine Chapel, as Michelangelo’s frescoes gazed down in solemn silence, the ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York, about the significance of the Cardinals electing the first pope from the United States.