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 ...

The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff in the Catholic Church's 2,000-year history, will be ...

A statue of the Divine Child of the Miracle is the Christ Child wearing a traditional straw hat and set in at the center of ...

Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei ...

The Trump administration’s suspension of the federal refugee program has upended the lives of many Afghans who worked with ...