VATICAN CITY (RNS) — When Cardinal Robert Prevost emerged from the loggia of St. Peter’s as Pope Leo XIV on Thursday (May 8), ...

Pope Francis stepped down after a long period of ill health, leaving the Catholic Church to select a new leader. In a ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago-area native and former substitute teacher at St. Rita High School, has become the first ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago in 1955, became a novitiate in the Order of St. Augustine at age 22 after graduating from ...

The celebration vibrated with joy following the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost Martínez — both a U.S. and ...

Cardinal Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota who traveled to Rome for the papal conclave, ...

"Bishop Prevost was never the kind of bishop who gave orders from behind a desk," said Janinna Sesa Córdova, who led Caritas ...

While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

Standing on loggia of St. Peter’s basilica, newly elected Pope Leo XIV smiled, waved and appeared to hold back emotion May 8 ...

Cardinal Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota who travelled to Rome for the papal conclave, ...

Chicagoans celebrated the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the U.S. and a Chicago native, with joy and ...