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.

More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal ...

When still a cardinal, the new pope led discussions on key issues facing the church during which “every voice had equal value ...

"I asked him why he took this name," Filoni said. "He's an Augustinian. ... He told me, 'In this moment, we need a man with a ...

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The morning after John Prevost watched his younger brother Robert become Pope Leo XIV, he received a familiar phone call.

Speakers blasted “Born in the U.S.A. and ”American Pie" as six cardinal electors from the United States celebrated the first ...

If the new pope is able to update church teachings on some hot-button issues, it will be because Pope Francis set the stage ...

From Europe to the Asia Pacific, millions of Catholics are celebrating the election of U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV as the 267th ...

Pope Leo XIV emphasizes peace, dialogue, and church unity amid current challenges in the Roman Catholic Church.

The still-open wounds from decades of clerical sexual abuse, along with the growing power of far-right Catholics in Trump’s ...

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