Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago has just been elected Pope Leo XIV, and while the world watched him, the internet was ...

Pope Leo XIV came out May 8, 2025 to the balcony of the Sistine Chapel wearing the traditional garb for a new pope, a red ...

After being appointed by the Cardinals, Pope Leo XIV holds his first mass after the Conclave in which he was elected.

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior cardinal deacon announced. The 69-year-old Chicago native is the first ...

Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope.

After celebrating his first Mass as pope, Leo XIV is slated to have a full schedule in the coming days. His next engagement is expected to be a May 10 meeting with cardinals. He'll then have midday ...

What a great day for us in Philly with a pope that knows what Wawa is all about,” Archbishop Nelson Pérez jokingly told ...

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

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, ...

Cardinal electors begin voting for new pope in Vatican 2025 conclave, as world waits for signal of white smoke.