Pope Leo XIV blessed the 159 cyclists competing in the Giro d’Italia as the three-week race’s final stage began with an ...

While other students might be in class or socializing at lunch, a group of young Catholics attends Mass every weekday at noon ...

The name a new pope chooses will "indicate a certain spirit and direction and vision of the new pope," said Dennis Doyle, a theologian and professor emeritus of religious studies at the University ...

Prevost, who chose Leo XIV as his papal name, was selected to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and succeed Pope Francis. Pope Leo XIV is the first pope born in the United States and the ...

Editor's note: Follow USA TODAY's live coverage as Pope Leo XIV is named the first pope from the United States on Thursday, May 8. A legend involving an ancient doomsday prophesy could be ...

Sixteen days after the reign of Pope Francis ended with his death on Easter Monday, the Catholic Church is looking to the future. The papal conclave got underway Wednesday afternoon in Rome ...

Update: White smoke poured from the chimney on top of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday afternoon at the Vatican, indicating that the cardinal electors in the conclave had chosen a new pope.

In this day and age, even the holy leave social media trails. The new pope's online footprint was quickly dissected Thursday just minutes after he was elected the next head of the Catholic Church ...

VATICAN CITY — As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes are on the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals have begun the secretive process known ...