VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that the 133 cardinals working inside had reached a two-thirds ...

An American pope was big news. News that Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV as of May 8, was a (distantly) New Orleans pope? Even bigger, at least among local Catholics and genealogy researchers.

Benches created by District 205 students and teachers depicting Pope Leo XIV are inside Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in ...

Lebanon needed this embrace.” The words went out over a social media platform, made more poignant for the accompanying image ...

His voice reveals, above all, the gratitude he feels toward his friend, Pope Leo XIV. From this friendship, forged over more than three decades, comes the Spanish-language book From Robert to Leo, ...