After the dramatic contrasts of the last two pontificates – the traditionalist Benedict XVI followed by the reformist Francis ...

After the white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel and the world learned that Pope Leo XIV would lead the church, Catholics ...

Over the course of a day and a half, the more than 130 members of the College of Cardinals had come to a decision on who ...

Robert Francis Prevost will lead the Catholic Church as Pope Leo XIV, becoming the first pope to hail from the United States.

Follow live coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of ...

White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church ...

People gathered for prayer at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion Wednesday as the process to elect a new pope began ...

But “I can now say it,” John Prevost, one of two brothers of Pope Leo XIV, said in an interview Thursday with ABC News.

Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman ...

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...