At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

Patrick Feltz, 28, of Villa Park, sports his homemade pope hat while waiting to enter Rate Field in Chicago for a baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the Miami Marlins on May 10, 2025. It ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

COMMENTARY: The Pope has put forward Augustine as his great friend, father and companion on the Way of Christ.

Massimo Faggioli, professor of historical theology at Villanova University in Pennsylvania and a regular contributor toLa ...

While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of ...

The new pope, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has signaled that his identity will defy easy categorization.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...

Criminal justice reform has long been one of the most divisive issues between Democrats who control the Illinois General Assembly and the Republican minority.

Conclave is over and we have a new pope. Here are some of the best reactions on the internet to Pope Leo XIV.

From communicating values ??to building narratives, Pope Leo XIV will impact an audience of 1.4 billion Catholics ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...