Leo was elected by 133 cardinals from 70 countries in just over 24 hours, giving the church a pope just three weeks after the ...

BEFORE anything else, boundless gratitude and glory to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit for gifting our Church and our world with the new Supreme Pontiff, His Holiness Leo XIV, the 267th pope ...

Pope Leo XIV came out May 8, 2025 to the balcony of the Sistine Chapel wearing the traditional garb for a new pope, a red ...

Outsiders cannot know what was in the minds of the cardinals who elected Robert Prevost, Pope Leo XIV, that made them choose ...

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 ...

Duke of Edinburgh to represent King at inauguration of Pope Leo XIV - Edward will travel to the Vatican to attend Pope Leo ...

Prevost, the 267th leader of the church and the first American pope, is now Leo XIV. But back when he was skinny undergrad at Nova, he was just Robert. The Chicago native was in what the church calls ...

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News of an American pope, and a Chicagoan, causes NPR's Scott Simon to remember what it was like attending Mass in his ...

Joanne M. Pierce is a professor emerita of religious studies at College of the Holy Cross. Her research interests include ...

Two local priests had the chance to meet the new Pope when he was known as Father Bob Prevost. Now, the Midwesterner is ...