Mass layoffs: A federal judge in California called for a two-week pause in the Trump administration’s mass layoff plans, ...

As the conclave is held to select a new pope, LGBTQ Catholics hope that the next leader of the church will continue the inclusion work Pope Francis started more than 20 years ago. Pope Francis ...

Then he did something notably uncharacteristic of Pope Francis. He sang. “Hallelujah,” he intoned reverently, in Latin. The moment spoke to an evolving truth. As much as Leo has echoed Francis ...

Non-U.S. citizens are prohibited from visiting the U.S. Naval Academy or Naval Support Activity Annapolis, which is located across the Severn River and provides operational and other support to ...

Is Pope Leo XIV the first “pope of the periphery”? During his pontificate Francis created 163 cardinals from 76 countries; 25 of those nations had never been represented before in the College ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago and raised in Dolton, has been selected to lead the Catholic Church as the 267th pope. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV and becomes the ...

American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago in 1955, was elected pope this Thursday, on the second day of the conclave convened in Vatican City following the death of Pope Francis.

Pope Leo XIV indicated on Saturday that his papacy will follow closely in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis, telling church cardinals that they should take up that “precious legacy” and ...

TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty At another point during his speech, which lasted roughly 10 minutes, the new pope also thanked his predecessor, the late Pope Francis. "We still keep in our ears that ...

Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday (May 10), making clear that he will follow in the modernizing reforms of Pope Francis to make the Catholic Church inclusive, attentive to ...

Robert Francis Prevost was announced as the new pope after voting in Vatican on Thursday. He is the first American pope in history. Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the new pope after ...