Muslims in the pontiff's native city want to see Francis’ social justice approach to Christian-Muslim relations continue.

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 ...

Brazilian Cardinal Leonardo Steiner told America that Pope Leo would carry forward Pope Francis' legacy of synodality in the ...

Approximately 5,000 staff working for the Roman Curia and state institutions — such as the Vatican Museums, the Vatican ...

"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 leader. Nagy and an ABC7 crew were sent out to cover the papal conclave. They ...

In an interview with America's Gerard O'Connell, Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington said that Pope Leo XIV would "carry forward" the legacy of Pope Francis' pontificate "in its essential elements." ...

David Whidden, Ph.D., professor of theology and vice president for mission at Franciscan University in Baton Rouge, ...

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

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

Three weeks after his election, Pope Leo XIV met for the first time with Vatican and Roman Curia employees—an audience of ...