Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

One of the most unifying elements of the Medieval Period was the Roman Catholic Church. All classes and ranks of people, whether that be nobles, peasants or tradesmen, were profoundly affected by the ...

Larger than a football field, the inside of the cathedral now glows with oatmeal-colored walls and cavernous vaulted ceilings ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Presiding over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo was inaugurated as the first American pope, in a ceremony filled ...

ABC News’ Linsey Davis reports on the significance of Pope Leo XIV’s name and what it hints at for the future of his papacy.

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney in Vatican City Thursday as the world gathered to watch a new pope take ...

More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal ...

President Bola Tinubu has extended his heartfelt congratulations to His Holiness Leo XIV on his election as the Bishop of ...

The church's owner hopes the papal link can help efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings on the Far South Side.

For the first time, the majority of cardinals to choose a pope are not from Europe, as Catholic demographics shift. But ...

UPDATE: Students and staff were allowed to return after a sweep of the area by police found no explosive device, police said.