The new pope, speaking to thousands in St. Peter’s Square, echoed themes that Francis, his predecessor, regularly addressed.

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

Pope Leo XIV held the first mass of his papacy Friday morning in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel with the cardinals who elected ...

Leo XIV celebrated his first mass as pope on Friday, the day after becoming the first US head of the Catholic Church, with ...

Newly installed Pope Leo XIV will hold a Mass with cardinals in the Sistine Chapel on Friday, a day after he was elected as ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel on Friday morning, just a day after being elected to replace ...

Pope Leo XIV held his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel. He said a few words in his native English before continuing in ...

Continuing the cycle of traditions that await a new pope, the newly elected pontiff addressed his cardinals in English and ...

On Friday, Pope Leo XIV presided over his first mass as Pope for Cardinals at the Sistine Chapel.

Where Christians are "mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied" is where the Catholic Church's "missionary ...

Pope Leo XIV was announced as the successor of the late Pope Francis, who recently passed away at the age of 88.