When Robert Prevost was elected pope this week, he chose one of the most popular papal names. The lives of the Pope Leos who ...

The Great Pope Fight of 2025 continued between the White Sox and Cubs over Pope Leo XIV’s favorite Chicago baseball team.

“Along with the priests, deacons, consecrated religious, seminarians, and lay men and women of the Diocese of Allentown, I ...

Pope Leo XIV is a man of many firsts; apart from being the first American-born pope, he is also the first pope to be an ...

The Catholic Church has elected its first American pope in history: Cardinal Robert Prevost. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

What Pope Leo XIV's name could tell us about himself and what's ahead for the church. Five popes named Leo are also saints.

Pope Leo XIV made history as the first American pontiff on Thursday, making his debut with a speech to the faithful in St.

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

ET: Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church from the United States and ...

Robert Prevost, a tennis-loving, Wordle-playing White Sox fan from Chicago, is now leader of the world's nearly 1.5 billion Catholics. Vatican observers describe what the election of Leo XIV, the ...

When Catholics heard on May 8 the new pope had chosen the name Leo XIV, the thoughts of many turned immediately to Leo XIII, ...