Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

The following is the full first speech of Pope Leo XIV, given from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica shortly after ...

The 69-year-old will become Leo XIV as he succeeds the late Pope Francis, who brought the Peruvian-American to the Vatican ...

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chape l and St. Peter's bells chimed around 6 p.m. local time in Rome on May 8, ...

Robert Francis Prevost attended the Catholic Theological Union from 1977 until 1982, when he graduated with a master's of ...