Robert Prevost, a tennis-loving, Wordle-playing White Sox fan from Chicago, is now leader of the world's nearly 1.5 billion Catholics. Vatican observers describe what the election of Leo XIV, the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

Pope Leo XIV, in his first Sunday blessing, called for peace in Ukraine and an immediate Gaza ceasefire, urging an end to war and unity in the Catholic Church.

State Sen. Howard Marklein and State Rep. Mark Born, the Republican co-chairs of the Joint Finance Committee, say the GOP ...