ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

Pope Leo XIV is registered to vote in the United States and has previously voted in some Republican primaries, but he is not ...

Leo is the first pope with a pre-papal social media presence, which helps paint an early picture of his positions on various ...

The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests is calling for the new pope to impose a zero-tolerance policy.

Pope Leo XIV, now the successor of St. Peter, leads the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church in a sacred role that few others ...

Despite historic gains under Pope Francis, women remain excluded from the Catholic Church's highest levels of decision-making ...

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

Almost immediately after the Tribune published an article Thursday mentioning that the newly-elected Pope Leo XIV had dined ...

In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first US-born pontiff, the memes, doctored images, and ...

"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

A couple dozen people walked through the open doors of the long-closed St. Mary of the Assumption parish Friday to see where ...

As Pope Leo XIV stepped out in front of cheering crowds outside of St. Peter’s Basilica to give his first speech as head of ...