After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — On the first weekend of Pride month, the Pride Progress flag was stolen from the All-Saints Roman Catholic Church in Syracuse and later burned, church officials said Friday night.

that the prospect of an American pope is slim. open image in gallery Appointed Archbishop of New York in 2009, Dolan is one of the most recognizable figures in the U.S. Catholic church – known ...

VATICAN CITY—The Roman Catholic Church elected the first American pope in its history, placing its 1.4 billion faithful in the hands of a missionary-turned-Vatican prelate who has been critical ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been named the first American pope of the Catholic Church. What to know about Pope Leo ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, is the first U.S.-born pope in the Church's history. Here's how readers reacted to his election.

On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pope, Leo XIV.