To Joe Merigold, a fellow student, Pope Leo was the “smartest person in the class” who would stretch over his desk and “poke ...

Americans gathered in St. Peter’s Square on May 8 to celebrate the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pontiff from the ...

Pope Leo XIV will make a “darn good pope,” New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan said Friday as the first American-born pontiff ...

Prior to his election as Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost's social media activity suggested criticism of President Donald Trump's ...

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

During a press conference with American cardinals on Friday, Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, said he did not think the fact that Pope Leo was from the United States "carried much weight" in the ...

Americans in St. Peter’s Square were stunned and joyous when they learned that an American cardinal, Robert Provost, was ...

As Cardinal Robert Prevost's name was announced, a sound of shock rose up. It was something few people had anticipated — the ...

When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pope, clearly saw something in Prevost early on. He first sent him to Chiclayo ...

“I’m ecstatic,” said Alec Maddox, 32, a consultant who lives in San Diego, although he and his two brothers, Tommy, 30, and ...