First American pontiff takes Catholic Church helm amid increasing global turmoil - The 69-year-old was chosen to be the 267th ...

What will Pope Leo XIV do? Will he continue the policies of Pope Francis or take the Catholic church in another direction?

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has become the first-ever American elected as the leader of the Catholic Church -- now known by his pontifical name of Pope Leo XIV. The 69-year-old, born on the ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming with emotion.

The faithful in Los Angeles, America’s most Catholic city, were delighted — and a little stunned — to learn a Chicago-born ...

Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches, cheered from classrooms and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision ...

Robert Prevost, elected pope Thursday, grew up in Dolton. Former neighbors and local Catholics reacted to the election of the ...

Americans in St. Peter's Square were stunned and joyous when they learned that an American cardinal, Robert Provost, was ...

Robert Prevost’s election as pope stunned many Catholics skeptical that an American would ever be elevated to that role.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected the first pope from the United States on the second day of the conclave Thursday.Leo was born in Chicago and has dual citizenship in the United ...

Western Pennsylvania's religious leaders and Catholics are celebrating the election of a new pope. On Thursday, Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected to become the first American pope, taking the ...

Holy Thursday: 6 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper Good Friday (No 6 p.m. Mass); Noon Chaplet of Seven Sorrows; 1 p.m. Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries); 1:45 p.m. Seven Last Words; 2:15 p.m. Stations ...