Cardinal Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, is the first U.S.-born pope in the Church's history. Here's how readers reacted to ...

The election of Leo, the Catholic Church's first American pope, is drawing a mixed response from groups often at odds with ...

Leo XIV’s namesake penned an encyclical, Rerum Novarum, that critiques both capitalism and socialism.

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of ...

Pope Leo XIV has never been accused of abuse, but has been in positions of authority when accusations of sexual abuse have ...

The month of May brings many things: flowers and other signs of spring, graduation season for many high schools and universities, and, in the Catholic Church, ...

As cardinals prepare to meet to select the next pope, many are wondering what stance his successor will take on social issues ...

Robert Prevost of the U.S. is the new Catholic pontiff, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. The Chicago-born cardinal ministered in ...

The divisions are evident in issues like immigration, same-sex couples, and the role of women in the Church. Read more at ...

Massachusetts residents expressed shock that American-born Robert Francis Prevost will lead the Catholic Church. What they said after his selection ...

Students at a Catholic elementary school in Dorchester not only witnessed the election of a new pope, but also got to learn<a ...