Following the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pontiff elected from the U.S., American cardinals shared their reaction to the new leader of the church.

Pope Leo XIV will make a “darn good pope,” New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan said Friday as the first American-born pontiff ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said having an American pope is “a great thing for the United States of America and the world, and we are praying for him.” ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, is the first U.S.-born pope in the Church's history. Here's how readers reacted to ...

Karoline Leavitt recently had to field a question about Donald Trump's reaction to the election of Pope Leo XIV, and her ...