The new pope, speaking to thousands in St. Peter’s Square, echoed themes that Francis, his predecessor, regularly addressed.

COMMENTARY: The Pope has put forward Augustine as his great friend, father and companion on the Way of Christ.

An Omaha native now reports in the Holy See. She's been in Rome since 2016 and has had the opportunity to cover the recent ...

Standing on loggia of St. Peter’s basilica, newly elected Pope Leo XIV smiled, waved and appeared to hold back emotion May 8 ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first outing since his election and visited Rome, where he visited Pope Francis' tomb and prayed there.

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...

While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of ...

In a speech to members of the international media Monday, Pope Leo XIV called for a rhetoric of peace over words of anger or ...

Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon ...

The last five pontiffs have addressed members of the international news media who reported on the conclaves that elected them.