Leo told the cardinals who elected him that he was fully committed to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the 1960s ...

Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual ...

After celebrating his first Mass as pope, Leo XIV is slated to have a full schedule in the coming days. His next engagement is expected to be a May 10 meeting with cardinals. He'll then have midday ...

The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the ...

The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church's 267th pope had special meaning for a group of students at an international Catholic school in Rome.

Leo XIV was elected after only four rounds of voting. “It was a very rapid decision,” Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, told the Daily Mail. “I think that’s because Pope Francis left a College ...

The heraldic design of Leo’s papal coat of arms features a fleur-de-lis on a blue background, symbolizing the Virgin Mary, ...

When the 69-year-old Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on May 8, 2025, appeared on the main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time as Pope Leo XIV, he was cheered loudly by the huge crowd of ...

Pope Leo XIV made history on Thursday when he became the first U.S.-born, and the first Augustinian, to assume the papacy, ...

Pope Leo is the first American pontiff of the Catholic Church. Pope Leo XIV said Saturday that he selected his name in part ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Leo XIV took his first trip outside the Vatican on Saturday, heading about an hour's drive east ...