He always struck me as being a very disciplined, abstemious, quiet guy, and I would say we Irish would have been a bit more, ...

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

built from marble and travertine by architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the 17th century. Cardinal electors due to vote in the conclave today streamed into St. Peter’s Basilica to take part in a ...

Americans in St. Peter’s Square were stunned and joyous when they learned that an American cardinal, Robert Provost, was ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first pope who belongs to the Order of Saint Augustine, whose principles, priests say, offer a window ...

As Cardinal Robert Prevost's name was announced, a sound of shock rose up. It was something few people had anticipated — the ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV pledged to align himself with “ordinary people” and against the rich and powerful as he presided over his first Mass as leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics on Friday, and called for the ...

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

The inauguration Mass on May 18 will be the formal installation ceremony where Pope Leo XIV will receive the Fisherman’s Ring and the pallium as symbols of his papal office. The “taking possession” ...

"I think people will be very impressed with him," he said of the new pope, who graduated from Villanova University in 1977.