NEW YORK — News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was ... raising the question of ...

The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the ...

Deepening unity among Catholics will be the greatest challenge facing the next pope, who will be elected as early as ...

Following the election of Pope Leo XIV, social media has exploded with Christians (mostly non-Catholics) claiming that the ...

Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost has gone by “Bob” for most of his life. On Thursday, the 69-year-old became Pope Leo ...

The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

While posturing as a reformer, Prevost was selected to further the Church’s alliance with capital and protect its own ...