Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

When Jan and Bob Wacker packed up and moved from their home in St. Louis County it’s because family comes first with them.

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

Robert Prevost - now known as Pope Leo XIV - has become the first American pontiff after white smoke finally emerged from the ...

How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...

The election of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, as the new pontiff has delighted Catholics and ...

On a historic Thursday in the Vatican, Robert Francis Prevost was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, ...

Pope Francis broke several barriers as the first pope from the ... elected through the support of the Roman clergy. There was Saint Victor I, of North African descent and likely Black, whose papacy ...

St. Francis House, Inc. is seeing a new wave of stability and success after Alachua County purchased its Sunrise Residence ...