Pope Leo XIV may have broken a historic barrier by becoming the first pontiff from the United States, but his views on the ...

On "This Week," Cardinal Cupich said Pope Leo XIV may call for changes to the United States immigration system.

Robert Prevost served Peru's rural poor, even if it meant sticking his hands in grease. That is nether the hallmark of a ...

Political partisanship is likely to become an even more untenable position for American Catholics than it already is.

At a meeting Pope Leo held with international journalists, NBC News’ Lester Holt spent time speaking one-on-one with the ...

The new pontiff spoke to NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who was part of a news conference for some 6,000 journalists from ...

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior ...

The Rev. John T. Pawlikowski served as co-founder and director of the school’s Catholic-Jewish Studies Program and also ...

Pope Leo XIV is both the first American pope and the first boomer pope, and any projections about what his papacy will look like are premature right now.

While Pope Leo XIV presides over a flock of 1.4 billion people from within Vatican City, there’s one worldly responsibility he may not escape: Uncle Sam.

The new pope’s status as an American shocked me, and I immediately began to consider the politics and symbolism of the choice.

Pope Leo XIV is busy in his first full week of work in the Vatican, but will he consider making a trip home to Chicago in the ...