Set to turn 70 on September 14, the new pope has the potential to have a long and eventful pontificate. Here, see photos of ...

Catholic cardinals have reconvened in the Sistine Chapel for a second day of voting to continue their effort to elect a new ...

In a historic celebration, Pope Leo XIV, the first United States-born pontiff in the nearly 2,000-year history of the ...

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky and US vice president JD Vance were seen shaking hands at the inauguration of new Pope ...

Pope Francis was trying to fill a big job. For decades, that position — heading the powerful office that helps vet and select ...

This story has been updated. The Catholic Church and its approximately 1.4 billion followers have a new leader and the first ...

and that September, Francis appointed him as Cardinal, per the Vatican. The new pope's chosen papal name, Leo, follows a long tradition dating back to St. Leo I, who died in 461.

He was elevated by Pope Francis to the rank of Cardinal in September 2023. Addressing the faithful in St. Peter's Square in Italian and Spanish, Prevost is the first pope to be a native English ...

Saturday’s open-air mass would be a very special one: a celebration marking the ascendency of Pope Leo XIV ... by a local priest released a letter in September last year accusing Leo of failing ...

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, right, in Jakarta, Indonesia, last September. He has long been seen as a front-runner to be pope.Credit...Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle ...