The new pontiff spoke to NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who was part of a news conference for some 6,000 journalists from ...

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The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception will celebrate a special “Mass of Thanksgiving upon the ...

In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...

Nothing compares to the pageantry of a papal election, not the coronation of a British monarch, a presidential inauguration ...

The election of the first US pope is a godsend to businesses in Rome, as big-spending pilgrims flocking to the Vatican are ...

Regarding America broadly, here are Leo XIII’s thoughts on the United States in 1895: He “esteemed and loved exceedingly the young and vigorous American nation, in which We plainly discern latent ...

As a Chicagoan who teaches at Villanova University, it was surreal for me to watch the election of Cardinal Robert Francis ...

With the election of the new Pope Leo XIV, Pensions & Investments reviewed the financial standing of the United States ...

Pope Leo XIV emphasized the importance of global peace on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump is pitching himself as a ...

Almost a week after Cardinal Robert Prevost was announced as the new Pope Leo XIV, people are still talking about the first ...

The new pope's eldest brother has come under scrutiny for inflammatory political posts—here's what we know about him.