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"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.
Though Leo XIV is from Chicago, his election to the papacy reflects the move of Christianity toward the Global South.
The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.
White smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney at the Vatican, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the ...
Pope Leo XIV made his first trip outside Rome since being elected as leader of the Catholic Church. The pope was driven to ...
The world has a new pope, and for the first time ever, he is from the United States. While the relationship between the new ...
Political figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election ...
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV's significance as leader of the Catholic Church is beyond dispute, but the papacy's role has ...