Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as pontiff at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on May 9, the day after stunning the world as the first pope from the United States in the Church's history.

Being here in Rome, being part of something that’s thousands of years old, and seeing a list of every pope since St. Peter — you see this continuous chain, and you just know you’re part of ...

Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope. Freed from ...

The United States cardinals who were part of the conclave that on Thursday elected Pope Leo XIV spoke to the media at a press conference Friday.

Cardinal says Leo will be ‘darn good Pope’ as White House downplays Trump tensions - The 69-year-old former cardinal was ...

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's ...

The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...

Pope Leo XIV emerged from the conclave as the first American pontiff in history, he headed back into the Sistine Chapel to celebrate the liturgy.

The conclave to elect the 267th pope ended after the second day of voting on Thursday, marking one of the shortest conclaves in history.