Boston Catholics are joining the faithful around the world in celebrating the election of the first American-born pope.

The election of Leo, the Catholic Church's first American pope, is drawing a mixed response from groups often at odds with ...

Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman ...

Robert F. Prevost, 69, was a longshot selection with extensive missionary experience in Peru and an approach similar to Pope ...

Ahead of the 2013 conclave to replace Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan was tipped to restore the papal hat ...

Massachusetts Catholics and political leaders took a moment to recognize new Pope Leo XIV after Cardinal Robert Prevost was ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

Students at a Catholic elementary school in Dorchester not only witnessed the election of a new pope, but also got to learn<a ...

President Donald Trump reacted to the selection of the new pope and leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday.