How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost is the first American pope in 2,000 years. What are his political views? Has he said anything about ...

All signs point to the newly elected pontiff’s continuing in much the same vein as his predecessor, but with a more moderate ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevos in the U.S., has been chosen to succeed Pope Francis as the head of the Catholic ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Mass on Friday after his historic election as the first North American ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost was chosen as Pope Francis' successor on Thursday, taking the papal name Leo XIV. The world is ...

White smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel on the evening of Thursday, May 8, signaling that the Vatican has elected a new ...

In his final Easter message, Pope Francis expressed pain over the violence and division throughout our world and urged us to ...

With the papal conclave underway, Maureen H. O’Connell writes that the cardinals who elect his successor should keep in mind ...

Phyliss Zagano, a Hofstra professor who was on a papal panel studying the issue, has high hopes that the next pontiff will ...

During the Francis papacy, the role of women in the church emerged as a pressing priority, with Catholics across the globe ...

Women, by gender, are deemed unworthy to represent Christ as priests and are therefore incapable of receiving or fully ...