Pope Leo is set to hold a mass in Chicago on June 14 to ‘offer a special video message to the young people of the world,’ ...

Robert Francis Prevost, who was born in Chicago and attended Villanova University, was elected as the new pope on Thursday and chose Leo XIV as his papal name.

Pope Leo XIV is being described by Cardinal Timothy Dolan as a "citizen of the world" who will seek to build bridges with President Donald Trump and other global leaders.

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the will of ...

In her latest column installment, Chan analyzes the rise of conservative Christian nationalism and reflects on why the new ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said after a two-hour call with Vladimir Putin that peace talks would begin “immediately” after his Russian counterpart refused to attend negotiations May 15 with ...

This week in Rome, I’m talking to the vice ... and clearly there is some tension between Trump administration policy and things that the pope thinks or the Vatican thinks, how do as a Catholic ...

The election of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV to lead the Roman Catholic Church raised an immediate question: What does this signal to the U.S. and President Trump? On Truth Social, the president ...

And Leo, known in Rome as “The Latin Yankee,” clearly ... who was just named Pope,” Trump posted to his social media site. “It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American ...

Donald Trump is trying to take credit for the selection of the first American pope—who doesn’t seem ... Rochester in Minnesota who traveled to Rome for the papal conclave, relayed the words ...

Rome rules, as it did when Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American, became Pope Leo XIV, the 267th pope in a 2,000-year history of succession. But that will not stop Donald Trump, the 47th ...