The 69-year-old pope offered a message of communion during an inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square before 150,000 people, ...

Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

White smoke billowed over St ... Gregory and Benedict have proven more popular throughout church history. However, the name Leo carries particular historical weight, especially since no pope ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a symbol of ...

Follow live coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a ...

Cardinals will return to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope after the first conclave ballot ...

The Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with as many as four more rounds of voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion ...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) welcomed Pope Leo XIV as the leader of the Church ... hand." American Cardinal Raymond Burke, a Wisconsin native and former archbishop of ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in history and will be known as Pope Leo XIV. White smoke poured from ...