An unexpected gesture surprised Pope Leo during a meeting with the faithful. The protagonist of the scene was a devotee who, ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the ...

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

Pope Leo XIV's election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being an American citizen who now is also a foreign head of state.

Pope Leo XIV's dual role raises questions about US citizenship. Experts suggest his citizenship is safe unless he renounces ...

Pope Leo XIV holds his first general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, issuing an appeal for Gaza, which he calls ...

Pope Leo I helped to ensure that Catholicism would outlast the Roman Empire. His name is a reminder that our faith rises ...

The way the news of the new pope’s heritage was made public speaks to the complexity of discussions of race in the U.S.

Presiding over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo was inaugurated as the first American pope, in a ceremony filled ...

Pope Leo XIV, 69, former Cardinal Robert Francis ... the Vice President of the United States, and the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. The two of them are practising Catholics.