Plumes of white smoke streaming from a Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday signaled that a new leader of the Roman Catholic ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a US-born missionary and senior Vatican official, was elected pope on Thursday evening, becoming the ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

U.S. President Donald Trump quickly reacted to the appointment of the first American pope on Thursday, May 8. Pope Leo XIV, ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful office of bishops, was ...

The Catholic Church is not dying from persecution. It is dying from confusion. Under Pope Francis, ambiguity became policy.

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago will succeed Pope Francis as the leader of the Catholic Church. Prevost, the first ...

For the first time, an American will lead the Catholic Church. On Thursday, the Vatican revealed that Cardinal Robert Prevost ...

White smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney at the Vatican, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the ...

The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.

Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope Francis.

What will Pope Leo XIV do? Will he continue the policies of Pope Francis or take the Catholic church in another direction?