The Pope is not merely a spiritual shepherd to the world's 1.4 billion Catholics; he is also a political figure whose influence radiates beyond the Vatican's walls. Throughout history, the papacy has ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV marks a turning point for American Catholicism and global Christianity, reshaping political, ...

Several of the cardinals who spoke to reporters Friday said that Leo’s American upbringing had little to do with his selection as pope, either as a counterweight to the Trump administration or ...

ANALYSIS: They share a love for St. Augustine but diverge on politics, immigration and AI. The conversation between Leo XIV ...

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump, the architect of "America first," now gets an American pope. But the Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, the first U.S.-born pope to be selected to ...

President Donald Trump congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, the first American Pope, on Truth Social. Prevost, 69, a Chicago native, will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Melania Trump, a Catholic ...

"To have the pope from the United States of America, that's a great honor," Trump said at the White House. Asked if he would meet with Leo, Trump said "they've already called." White House ...

Critics of the measure, which addresses both real and artificial intelligence-generated imagery, say the language is too ...

I don’t think he’s the kind of man who sends coded messages,” Cardinal Michael Czerny says in this exclusive interview with ...

President Trump Thursday congratulated Pope Leo XIV, calling it a “great honor” that the Chicago-born pontiff has become the first pope born in the U.S. “It is such an honor to realize that ...

Trump himself and the MAGA-verse erupted in outrage, as if those were the cruelest, most outrageous words ever spoken. That set the stage for the May 8 reaction to Pope Leo XIV. Opinion ...