The U.S.-born pope spent about a dozen years as a missionary in Peru and returned there later to serve as a bishop.

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

Cardinal Michael Czerny said that when Cardinal Robert F. Prevost was elected pope and chose the name Leo XIV, ...

Prior to his elevation to the papacy, Leo XIV stayed out of the spotlight on certain reforms backed by his predecessor but ...

Pope Leo XIV, elected May 8, is the first pope from the Order of St. Augustine, also known as the Augustinians or OSA, an ...

Eastern and Latin alike — who, above all in the Middle East, persevere and remain in their homelands,” Leo said May 14.

A special mass at St. John the Evangelist honored Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago and has deep ties to Latin America.

The U.S. State Department says it generally presumes that U.S. citizens, even if they accept a foreign government post, want ...

Men's world number one tennis player, Jannik Sinner, offered to rally with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday, after being received by the head of the Catholic Church at the Vatican.

Experts see the new pontiff as less confrontational than his predecessor, but willing to stand up for the church's teachings.

Heather and Dominic Jaroch tell PEOPLE about the time Pope Leo XIV — then simply known as “Father Bob" — flew back to Chicago ...