Leeds United are mourning the death of Gerry Francis, the first black player to feature for the club. The South African ...

Pope Leo XIV’s first signals about the style and substance of his pontificate show why he won such broad assent at the ...

Pope Leo XIV indicated on Saturday that his papacy will follow closely in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis, telling ...

Pope Leo XIV signaled on Saturday he would continue with the vision and reforms of Pope Francis, telling the world's Catholic ...

The two clerics met in South America, and when Francis needed to fill an important job at the Vatican, he knew where to turn.

Taking the name Leo XIV, the American was elected to be the 267th pontiff and spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion ...

Here’s a look at some of the leading papal contenders, with the proviso that favorites don’t typically end up getting the nod ...

In his advocacy of the poor, migrants and a more open church, many people see the new pope as a continuation of his ...

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...

The late former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller have been ...

The new pope's leadership will set the tone for the Church's future, whether continuing Francis's progressive reforms or ...

Argentine cardinal Angel Rossi, one of the 133 now gathered at the Vatican to elect a new pope, told Reuters before the ...