Survivors of clergy sexual abuse amplified calls Tuesday for a global zero-tolerance policy from the new pope’s American ...

It wasn’t which direction church doctrine might travel that I found most appealing. It was hearing this first American pope ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

The 19th reports that newly elected Pope Leo XIV, the first American to hold the papacy—as well as the first Peruvian citizen ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...

Leo’s commitments present a challenge to the nationalism and isolationism currently promoted by the White House.

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Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV after cardinals from around the globe elected him to the papacy, making him the first US pope.

With 10 days under his belt as pope, Leo XIV has already shown himself to be a mild yet focused bridge-builder, with a soft ...

Pope Leo’s personal trainer, Valerio Masella, revealed he was stunned to discover his client of nearly two years was a cardinal in an interview. Masella told Italian newspaper Il Messaggero that he ...

Peruvian Catholics in different U.S. cities shared what it meant to them seeing Pope Leo XIV, "Papa León," step out on the ...