For Vatican experts, the election of American Robert Francis Prevost Martinez as the new pope sends clear political and symbolic signals both within and outside the Catholic world ...

After celebrating his first Mass as pope, Leo XIV is slated to have a full schedule in the coming days. His next engagement ...

Queens elected officials are proudly celebrating the appointment of the first-ever American Pope, Cardinal Robert Francis ...

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

P olitical figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election ...

An exuberant album by the veteran recording artist and his wife seeks to steward the centuries-old tradition of coritos.

The Chicago-born pope has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Peru, where he was a missionary and a bishop. | Opinion ...

or “buen vivir,” through God’s love. As Jesus says in the Gospel of John, “I came so that they may have life and have it more ...

Many Indigenous Catholics saw an ally in Pope Francis who championed their causes, asked forgiveness for the church’s ...

Few, if any, Latin Americans show up on the speculative lists of who might be elected as the supreme pontiff, or “papabile.” ...

“We wanted to be near our Latin American pope,” Mr. Roa ... “It’s like we made a collaboration with God.” The baptism was quickly done. Afterward, the Roa family headed back to their ...