A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Pope Leo XIV will face many challenges in his time as leader of the Catholic Church, including how to counter Chinese ...

Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope.

"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...

Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, has participated in seven separate contests since 2012, including three Republican primaries.

After Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.

Newsweek Columnist, Vice President of Content at Salem Media Group and host of "Our American Stories" It was the first homily ...

The name alone often speaks volumes. In choosing to reign as Francis, first of that name, Jorge Bergoglio signaled clearly ...

Last month, the monarch and Queen Camilla met with the late Pope Francis while visiting Rome. On Friday, the royal couple ...

Some of the cardinals who elected him said his life of service to the poor in Peru and to the church at the Vatican mattered ...

If you have never seen the uniforms of the Vatican’s Swiss Guard — personal bodyguards to the pope — imagine that St. Peter’s ...