NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who ...

Leo’s ascent occurred with remarkable speed. Just over two years ago, he’d been one of the church’s 5,400 bishops — a role ...

As the first pope from the United States and a dual citizen of America and Peru, Pope Leo XIV — a native of the Windy City — ...

The man who is now known as Leo XIV becomes the 267th Bishop of Rome and the successor to Francis, one of the most liberal ...

The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.

Fight! “ The other introduced himself to the world with his first public word as pope: “Peace.” The contrast between ...

Americans have been looking out for any indications on how the new pontiff will lead the 1.4 billion people making up the global Catholic Church.

Political partisanship is likely to become an even more untenable position for American Catholics than it already is.

This combination photos shows Pope ... an American to the papacy across the country’s nearly 250-year history. Until, that is, the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of Chicago—Pope Leo XIV ...

Erik Pohlmeier, bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine, is one of many welcoming Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a ...

The new pope had a close relationship with Francis, whose legacy looms large. A key inspiration for that legacy, however, is the witness of Latin American Christians whose blood has been shed for ...