The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal ...

Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s office ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential ...

Speakers blasted “Born in the U.S.A. and ”American Pie" as six cardinal electors from the United States celebrated the first ...

President Bola Tinubu has extended his heartfelt congratulations to His Holiness Leo XIV on his election as the Bishop of ...

The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a ...