I haven’t encountered any American who didn’t experience one of those sentiments upon learning a U.S. citizen became the next pope.

We're still at the Rorschach test stage of the papacy, in which people can project almost anything they want to see amid the ...

On Monday, they got a special visit and some face time with Cardinal Blase Cupich. As expected, the students wore their ...

Scottish soon-to-be priests Matthew McCafferty and Kieran Burt reflect on meeting the new Holy Father — and following in his ...

The conclave that elected the first American pope had another first that few have heard about: a voting cardinal named ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

The Papal conclave has elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new leader of the Catholic Church. Here’s what we know ...

"It went well but I can't say anything." These are the only words from Cardinal Angelo Becciu after meeting Leo XIV. It was a ...

ABC7's Liz Nagy spent almost two weeks reporting from the Vatican as the Catholic Church elected Pope Leo XIV as its next ...

As with any new papacy, a quick look at their first appointments and audiences inside the system offers at least a small ...

At a time when gestures of inclusion carry immense moral and political weight, Pakistan’s silence spoke volumes, casting a ...

Ever since Pope John XXIII was elected in 1958, the successors of St. Peter have established a pattern: pope as disruptor, ...