It’s just remarkable to see someone I know as the pope,” said the Rev. Joe Roccasalva, an Augustinian priest who grew up in ...

Leo officially opened his pontificate by taking his first popemobile tour through the piazza, a rite of passage that has ...

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

In Chicago, whether it’s architecture or Catholicism, we do ordinary very well. It’s one reason we now call Pope Leo XIV our ...

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

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

Robert Prevost has been elected the first North American pope and will be known as Pope Leo XIV.After he was unveiled as the ...

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

Vatican Media, via Reuters The Roman Catholic Church ... succeed Pope Francis writing candidates’ names on voting cards by hand, trying to disguise their handwriting. Outside in St. Peter ...

The senior cardinal deacon then steps out on to the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica overlooking the square and ...