After less than 24 hours of seclusion in the Vatican, cardinals ended the 2025 papal conclave with the election of a new ...

Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was both a cross and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass in Sistine Chapel.

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

A priest who knows the new pope described him as "down to earth" and said he had once preached about Susan Boyle's appearance ...

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

The pope reportedly voted in primaries for both the GOP and Democratic parties and cast an absentee ballot for the 2024 ...

Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as pontiff at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on May 9, the day after stunning the world as ...

Alabama Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi of Mobile reacted to the stunning first election of a U.S.-born pope by highlighting traits ...

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

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Mass as the leader of the Catholic Church while congratulatory messages poured in for ...

In a stunning decision, the Catholic College of Cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV, the first pope born in the U.S., leading to ...