News of an American pope, and a Chicagoan, causes NPR's Scott Simon to remember what it was like attending Mass in his ...

The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a ...

A Boise sixth grader at Sacred Heart Catholic School randomly selected Cardinal Robert Prevost in a class assignment, correctly predicting the first American pope in history.

India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to an "immediate cease-fire," the two neighboring Asian nations and U.S. President ...

Pope Leo XIV made history on Thursday when he became the first U.S.-born, and the first Augustinian, to assume the papacy, ...

Pope Leo XIV indicated on Saturday that his papacy will follow closely in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis, ...

A formal Mass to mark the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV will take place on May 18 in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced ...