The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Mass as the leader of the Catholic Church while congratulatory messages poured in for ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...

History was made with the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as the man who replaces Pope Francis as pope. Prevost is the ...

Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, has spent much of his ...

Last fall, weeks before Donald Trump was elected US president, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy floated a pitch that ...

This hole in the Graffiti Wall marked with Latin and Greek writing was found to contain bones, fragments of cloth, and other belongings believed to be associated with the Apostle Peter.

As the Catholic Church prepares to elect a new leader, the editors of 'America' remember an extraordinary and beloved pontiff ...