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

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior cardinal deacon announced. The 69-year-old Chicago native is the first ...

On May 8, the first American pope was elected to lead the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Leo XIV. Here is a prayer for ...

The 69-year-old new pope, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, was elected the first pope from the United States on ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected May 8 as Pope Leo XIV. In Nashville, area Catholics celebrated the news. "Let us give thanks to God for this moment of renewal and unity in the ...

The 133 cardinals will remain within the Sistine Chapel and its adjoining buildings in total seclusion until they choose from among themselves the next pope.

Cardinals held the Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice Mass (Latin: For the Election of the Roman Pontiff) — the final liturgical celebration before the conclave.

When Garrett spoke of sinful empathy, he merely echoed writers like Joe Rigney, who helped popularize the idea years before ...

Lubbock Bishop Robert Coerver hopes the 133 cardinals who will elect the new pope are already listening for guidance from the ...

It is always a good thing, but then there are moments when it is the only thing that you can do when facing problems that seem to be the size of the highest mountain or deepest ocean. It is the thing ...

Established by Congress in 1952, the annual observance is held the first Thursday in May to encourage all Americans to ...

“Tonight is celebrating our unity and diversity,” he said. “We are, truly, the various hues of one spiritual rainbow of ...