Pope Leo XIV cast doubt on the assumption that he’s a Roma fan during a private audience with freshly crowned Italian champion Napoli — Roma's rival — on Tuesday.

A report of a study group on women deacons is expected as soon as June, putting the spotlight on the issue of women’s roles in the church once more.

When Robert Francis Prevost was growing up in a modest house in Dolton, Illinois, no one, not even his neighbors, imagined he'd one day wear the white robes of the papacy and become Pope Leo XIV, the first North American to hold the role, and second American after Pope Francis from Argentina.