The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.

The Catholic Church has a new leader, with the Augustinian cardinal Robert Prevost elected as Pope Leo XIV, his chosen name ...

History was made Thursday morning as white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel, signaling the election of a new pope — and for ...

During a press conference with American cardinals on Friday, Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, said he did not think the ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, ...

When white smoke rose out of the Vatican on Thursday, Catholics in Roanoke were watching from their screens in delight as ...

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's ...

Students at St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic school witnessed history Thursday with the selection of the first-ever American-born ...