New pope chooses Leo as his papal name. Here's what to know.

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...

In October 2021, the artist Serge Attukwei Clottey watched anxiously as a painting he had made just a few months earlier went ...

Cardinal Prevost was elected pontiff on the second day of the conclave, becoming the leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.

The Chicago-born pontiff is the first American to lead the Catholic Church, and while his positions on some of the church’s ...