Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the history of a legendary papal namesake.

Cardinal Prevost overtook the favorite, Italian Cardinal Parolin, during a historic conclave.

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago and raised in the south suburb of Dolton, where even his old house has become a point of pilgrimage.

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago, is also the first pope to be an Augustinian. Here's what it means to be an Augustian.

Black smoke is again pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney. That indicates no pope was elected on second or third ballots ...

With clouds of white smoke emanating from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel and to the loud cheers of thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the 133-member conclave elected a new pope on Thursday ...

When white smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel revealing that a new pope had been chosen, John Prevost turned on his television in Illinois and watched in awe as his brother’s name was announced.

Addressing last night's national concert on Horse Guards Parade, the monarch reminded the world of the VE Day words of his ...

Four generations of Royal Family witness historic RAF flypast for VE Day celebrations - Second World War airplanes and Red Arrows soared over Buckingham Palace to mark 80 years since end of WWII ...

This will be the last major commemoration for which “anyone will still be alive who actually served in the Second World War,” monarchy specialist Robert Hazell of University ... Alan Kennett, a ...