"Of course, at a simplistic level, I'm delighted." Cardinal of cinema Ralph Fiennes has a lot of follow-up questions about ...

Robert Prevost was ordained a priest by Belgian Archbishop Jean Jadot in St. Monica Chapel, located just outside the Vatican.

As it happened, the pope has several generations of Cuban ancestors.

He is the first American pope and he took Pope Leo XIV as his papal name. Soon thereafter, it was confirmed Prevost is a ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV has broken his silence on the global clergy abuse scandal, urging the Catholic Church to adopt a zero-tolerance ...

Delivered just six weeks after Leo's election, it creates a broad picture of a new era unfolding in the Catholic Church.

Thousands went to the first American pope’s old haunt on the South Side to hear a message from the man they once knew as ...

By Jed Nelson There are moments in history that are so important, so joyful or tragic that we remember exactly where we were or what we were doing when the news was broken to us. The moment the TV ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary ... the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic ...

Ralph Fiennes is eager to know what Pope Leo XIV thought of the movie Conclave after he experienced the historical moment in ...

In “Conclave,” which is based on a 2016 Robert Harris novel, Fiennes plays a cardinal tasked with selecting a new pope and finds himself investigating secrets and scandals about the major candidates, ...