The election of Leo, the Catholic Church's first American pope, is drawing a mixed response from groups often at odds with ...

Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman ...

Robert F. Prevost, 69, was a longshot selection with extensive missionary experience in Peru and an approach similar to Pope ...

Massachusetts Catholics and political leaders took a moment to recognize new Pope Leo XIV after Cardinal Robert Prevost was ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

Students at a Catholic elementary school in Dorchester not only witnessed the election of a new pope, but also got to learn<a ...

President Donald Trump reacted to the selection of the new pope and leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday.