It was about the time that the fake video started circulating about the woman purporting to recount the “situationship” she'd had with Robert Prevost, the new American pope, decades ago when ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

(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 ...

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

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.

Popes -- they’re just like us? Not exactly, but you wouldn’t know that by the American fanfare surrounding the newly minted ...

Pope Leo XIV's election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a foreign ...