The rector of a Catholic shrine that has just hosted a major pilgrimage said he was "absolutely delighted" at the election of ...

Pope Leo XIV is set to give the first news conference of his pontificate, a day after his inaugural Sunday address.

Excitement rippled through New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday morning, the first since an American was picked ...

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

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

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been announced as the new pontiff and has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV. There are no written ...

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

Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

“Holy Father, you had me at ‘JD Vance is wrong,’” Colbert quipped as the studio audience roared with cheers.

At midweek, the chaplain of Villanova University's basketball team cheered as one of his former star players led the New York ...

Much of the world’s attention is on the Vatican, where the conclave has begun and cardinals are meeting to select a successor ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, has something in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy. He’s been in positions of ...