Incoming Pope Leo XIV faces what some call the most-challenging environment for religion in China since Mao Tse-tung.

From priests on pogo sticks celebrating in St. Peter’s Square to the crowd outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, the ...

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

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the ...

But many people in the square looked puzzled at first, and the complete lack of phone coverage meant that most couldn't look ...

By Joshua McElwee, Crispian Balmer and Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel and ...

Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost has gone by “Bob” for most of his life. On Thursday, the 69-year-old became Pope Leo ...

On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new ...

ABC News’ Linsey Davis is in Vatican City where Pope Leo XIV has become the first American pontiff in the Catholic Church’s ...

White smoke has emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a new pope has been elected to lead the Roman ...