Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Bowman explains the similarities and differences in how Catholics pick their popes and ...

BEFORE anything else, boundless gratitude and glory to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit for gifting our Church and our world with the new Supreme Pontiff, His Holiness Leo XIV, the 267th pope ...

Like most people, Msgr. Joseph Prior watched the election of Pope Leo XIV with great interest. He noted how the people in Rome represented the diversity of the universal Church, a theme reflected in ...

All eyes were on the smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel on May 8 as 133 cardinals voted to select the successor to Pope ...

You have called me to carry that cross, and to be blessed with that mission, and I know I can rely on each and every one of you to walk with me,” the new pontiff said.

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel on Friday morning, just a day after being elected to replace ...

The Vatican announced the election of Pope Leo XIV shortly after white smoke blew from the roof of the Sistine Chapel on ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope and chose the name Leo XIV. A Chicago native, Prevost is the first American ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV, succeeds Pope Francis. Leo spent much of his ministry in Peru and was elected a Roman ...

Watch as white smoke first emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating a new leader of the Catholic Church has been ...

We’re so close to Friday I can almost taste it! In today’s issue: Cardinals elect new pope Trump announces U.K. trade deal ...