Excitement rippled through New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday morning, the first since an American was picked ...

Hamas has announced it will release the man believed to be the last living U.S. citizen held hostage in Gaza, the group ...

The St. Joseph Catholic Church in Fayetteville holds first Sunday Mass after new Pope is selected The St. Joseph Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV Sunday called for world peace, an end to conflicts across the globe and "no more war" during his first papal ...

Father Anthony Sorgie predicts a “renaissance” for the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, now that the first U.S.-born pope, Leo XIV, has been elected. “He is going to light it on fire, I can ...

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church of his new country, Peru. In fact, he became a Peruvian citizen,” Canadian ...

U.S. negotiators said Sunday that “substantial progress” was made and “perhaps the differences weren’t so large” after two ...

Tens of thousands of faithful Catholics gathered in St. Peter’s Square to watch Pope Leo XIV deliver the first Sunday ...

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

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

The new pope has made clear — in his remarks and his choice of a motto — that unity within the global church will be a paramount priority.

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.