The pope must defend the family from the state‘s attacks while promoting peace and asserting independence from state power.

How will Leo’s formative three decades in the United States before life in Peru and Rome shape his church of 1.4 billion souls? Yes, the cardinals must be thinking an American could solve the Holy See ...

As for Catholicism in the Central Valley, I know we have a bishop and many clergy that see the importance of meeting people ...

The previous Pope Leo emphasized the Catholic Church's responsibility to care for the poor and support workers' rights.

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new pontiff has been chosen after the second or third ballots.

Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost, 69, became the first pope from the United States on Thursday. The Church has placed Prevost — a conciliatory, soft-spoken Augustinian with a humble demeanor — at the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost has taken the name Leo XIV. The Chicago-born ... of bishops was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year history of the ...

Pope Leo XIV is registered to vote in the United States and has previously voted in some Republican primaries, but he is not registered as a member of a political party. Harry Styles was ...