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Some Catholics in Chicago still hope the new pope will signal greater acceptance for the LGBTQ+ community — with time.

Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...

Tens of thousands of Catholics and politicians including US Vice President JD Vance will gather at the Vatican on Sunday for the inauguration mass of Leo XIV, the first US pope.

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost will now be known to the world as Pope Leo XIV. At 69, he is seven years younger than ...

Are popes getting younger or older? How long do their tenures last? And how have their educational backgrounds evolved?

Pope Leo XIV will preside over his inaugural mass Sunday, May 18, with world leaders and large crowds expected to gather in ...

Vatican expert Michael Kelly, who was among those taken by surprise by the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as the first ...

Pope Leo XIV will formally take up his role as leader of the global Catholic Church on Sunday, with a Mass in St. Peter's ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, will be formally inaugurated on Sunday with a mass in St. Peter’s Square.