Pope Leo XIV is praying for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See. Leo's comments Sunday were his first ...

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S.

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

The United States is home to 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That's more than any other nation except Italy, home to 17 of the electors who will gather at the Vatican’s ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Shortly after the history-making announcement of the first American pope, Leo XIV, Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield released a statement.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California.

(WAND) — Bishop Thomas John Paprocki called ... Friday following the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Prevost, a native of Chicago and fellow White Sox fan, was ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND)- On Thursday, May 8th, Cardinal Robert Prevost was selected as the new pope. He is the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

NEW YORK (AP) — News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological spectrum in Pope Leo XIV ’s homeland, raising the ...