How will Leo’s formative three decades in the United States before life in Peru and Rome shape his church of 1.4 billion souls? Yes, the cardinals must be thinking an American could solve the Holy See ...

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was born in New York to British parents in 1964. He left the U.S. as a young boy ...

Latest news and live updates as the election process for the next pope continues. The cardinals met for their first conclave ...

Robert Prevost, an missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year ...

but it typically falls within a week of the pope's election. After Pope John Paul II was elected on Oct. 16, 1978, he celebrated his first public Mass on Oct. 22. Pope Benedict XVI was elected on ...