He had the good papal housekeeping seal of approval from Pope Francis, his predecessor, who put him in one of the top jobs in ...

Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Robert Prevost, is the first American pontiff. He was elected on Thursday, less than three ...

All four of Pope Leo XIV’s maternal great-grandparents were “free people of color” in Louisiana based on 19th-century census ...

Like so many of us, in and out of the Catholic faith, I never thought I’d see an American pope. Robert Cardinal Prevost. A ...

Catholicism has rarely been more prominent in US politics as the Trump administration openly embraces advisers and officials ...

Robert Prevost was elected the new pontiff after the fourth ballot of the conclave yesterday, taking the name Leo XIV. He is the first Pope from the United States and the first from the Augustinian ...

Many Catholics across Connecticut are hopeful that history’s first American pope, Leo XIV, can unify a divided world and carry on his predecessor's legacy of inclusiveness. “My first thought was that ...