Italy has produced 217 popes, by far the most of any country, followed by France and Germany. Many modern countries, especially in Asia and Africa, have never had a pope due to Catholicism's later ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost wasted little time after becoming Pope Leo XIV in May in answering the question of whether he would follow his predecessor, Pope Francis, known as the "climate pope" in ...

There is a long list of demands in the new pope's in-tray, ranging from the position of women in the church to the ongoing fight against sexual abuse and restoring papal finances. People both inside ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” It implies the sacred and secretive process is no popularity contest or ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a head of a major Vatican office since his election: Archbishop Filippo Iannone as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops.

NEW LENOX, Ill. (WLS) -- When Cardinal Robert Prevost was in the first grade, his neighbor told him he would be the first American pope, his brother told ABC News. On Thursday, that prophecy came true ...