ROME—It was fitting that when Pope Leo XIV was elected, the Italian Open tennis tournament was being played just up the road ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...

At first glance, it would seem that buying rosaries and listening to the pope cry out passionately against war have little to ...

Pope Leo XIV graduated in 1977. And while some might have guessed he studied theology or philosophy, the truth is far more ...

The new Chicago-born pope did not shy from world events in his public address following a prayer to the Virgin Mary, as he cited the recent 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, a conflict ...