Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...

Robert Prevost of the U.S. is the new Catholic pontiff, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. The Chicago-born cardinal ministered in ...

Prevost, a 69 member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. He appeared on the loggia of St. Peter’s ...

The United States was often deemed too powerful — militarily, diplomatically, and even culturally — for one of its own to ...

How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

Nobody should be expecting the pope to lead the resistance to Trump. But hopefully, Leo XIV, as an American, understands the ...

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

Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, has spent much of his ...

When the operation began, the Houthis were explicitly targeting Israel as well as Israeli-linked ships—though not U.S.

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

Robert Prevost’s election as pope stunned many Catholics skeptical that an American would ever be elevated to that role.

This Washington Examiner series will explore the key policy and philosophical questions raised by the issue of legal ...