Americans gather in St. Peter’s Square on May 8, 2025, to celebrate the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pontiff from the United States. \| Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA. America ...

How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

In a startling turn of events, the first U.S.-born pope has been elected. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, who grew up in Chicago in the 1960s, will be called Pope Leo XIV (the 14th). He was ...

Camden Bishop Joseph Williams, who took over the diocese in March, told the Philadelphia Inquirer on Monday the diocese no ...