Before shepherding his diocese, Bishop Martin had previously spent a successful dozen years as the Catholic chaplain at North ...

Pope Leo XIV is visiting the papal summer palace south of Rome. His visit is fueling speculation about whether he will use it ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

Pope Leo XIV has seen and experienced the Church in more contexts than perhaps any other person currently living...’ ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary born in Chicago who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the ...

The last non-European pontiff before him was Pope Gregory III, who reigned from 731 to 741 and was born in what is now Syria. With a span of more than 1,270 years between them, Pope Francis’s ...

The label reads, "Dedicated to the Great Son of our Homeland, Pope Benedict XVI." • Benedict XVI was the youngest of three children whose father, Joseph Sr., was a police officer. His brother ...

The pope has many ways to talk to the world’s people, including his @Pontifex Twitter account with 20 million followers. His speeches, homilies, teachings, messages and, recently, his ...