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

As white smoke billowed from a chimney above St. Peter’s Square and the world learned the name of the new Pope, one man at the March for Life in Canada stood stunned, unable to react. It wasn’t just ...

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

Robert Prevost served Peru's rural poor, even if it meant sticking his hands in grease. That is nether the hallmark of a ...

President Trump criticized ABC News reporters for claiming "Pope Leo's selection had nothing to do with Donald Trump" in a ...

Pope Leo XIV is being scrutinized for how he might interact with the Trump administration after its rifts with the late Pope ...

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 ...

In our weekly late night TV recap, every single host tells the same Chicago Pope jokes, and Oliver goes deep into the ...

At St. Mary of the Assumption school in Chicago’s southern suburbs, Robert Prevost was quiet, kind and studious. Mostly, he ...

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 ...