And yet, the conclave that concluded today in Rome has chosen the first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church: ...

That’s probably what a lot of people thought on Thursday after the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Robert ...

The original Pope Leo, known as “Leo the Great,” who served in the fifth century, left an equally powerful legacy. He is ...

The pope also has a more direct role on everyday Americans, in the sense that he is the head of a church followed by 20 ...

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church of his new country, Peru. In fact, he became a Peruvian citizen,” Canadian ...

According to a Vatican spokesperson ... Catholics to oppose the separation of church and state and decried the cultural liberalism he saw in American Catholicism. This mottled history of Leos ...

Two years ago Pope Francis chose Prevost to replace Marc Ouellet as prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Bishops, handing ...

The remarks come just one day after the pope called for a ceasefire and access to humanitarian aid in Gaza and an end to the ...

White smoke streamed from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, signaling to the world that the 133 Roman Catholic cardinals ...

The U.S.-born pope has signaled he will continue his predecessor’s work, but shows deference to tradition, too.