In Chicago, New Orleans and beyond, elated worshipers and priests celebrated their immediate sense of connection with Pope ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic ...

A joyous glow filled the inside of Nativity Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral, marking the first Sunday with a new Holy Father.

Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...