Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S. pope, descends from Creole and free people of color in Louisiana, highlighting complex issues to ...

A new pope has been selected, and with the selection comes a major historic moment that excited local members of the Catholic ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became the first American-born pope on May 8. Here's how local Catholics reacted to the news.

Vice President JD Vance will attend the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV following the pontiff’s historic election as the first ...

Since 1800, 13 out of now 17 popes were from Italy, according to data from the Vatican's Holy See. READ MORE:Pope Leo XIV is ...

Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, but his family’s New Orleans lineage dates back to the 1880s.

Habemus Papam. We have a pope. Across San Diego’s Catholic communities, people on Thursday reacted with joy and awe at what ...

Chicago-born Robert Prevost has been chosen as the first American in history to serve as pope, and the word of the day around ...

The world continues to watch and wait as 133 cardinals remain sequestered inside the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel as the secret ...