The new pope, formerly Robert F. Prevost, has a mixed voting history, casting ballots in both GOP and Democratic primaries.

Plumes of white smoke streaming from a Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday signaled that a new leader of the Roman Catholic ...

A Palestinian student arrested during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship has helped launch an initiative to help other immigrants facing deportation in Vermont.

But with Catholic Cardinals choosing an American to lead the Church for the first time in its history, that will change. The Chicago-born Robert Prevost, America’s first pope, has a worldview that ...

Trump hails election of American pope, calls it 'great honor' for the US, adding he's 'surprised,' 'happy' with choice.

CAIRO (AP) — Reports of plans to deport migrants from the U.S. to Libya, a country with a documented history of serious human ...

Vance congratulated the new American pope on his election on social media. "Congratulations to Leo XIV, the first American Pope, on his election! I’m sure millions of American Catholics and other ...

The announcement that the AfD would be challenging the classification went largely unnoticed in the United States. But last week, when Germany’s domestic intelligence agency the Bundesamt für ...

The longest conclave since the 20th century began took 14 rounds of balloting across five days, ending with the election of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis brought Robert Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church.

US-born Robert Prevost has been elected Pope Leo XIV in a historically brief conclave. Robert Francis Prevost has been elected as the first American leader of the Catholic Church and will take on the ...

In choosing Robert Francis Prevost, the conclave has done what many Vatican insiders considered unthinkable.