Pennsylvania and Ireland have had a long and rich historical association. It stretches back to the era of William Penn in the ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope from Chicago, could boost interest in the Catholic Church, potentially increasing ...

The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New Orleans, from a famous Voodoo priestess to the self-proclaimed inventor of ...

When Villanova University's president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope ...

signaling that the 133 cardinals working inside had reached a two-thirds majority to elect a new pope for the Catholic Church. American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as ...

was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Prevost, who took the name Leo XIV, said “Peace be with you” in his first words as pope, offering a ...

where Leo made his first speech to the world on Thursday evening as the new leader of the Catholic Church’s global faithful of 1.4 billion people. The cardinals highlighted how his American ...

ROME (dpa-AFX) - In a historic development in the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV has become ... Peruvian citizenship after working in the Latin American country for many years, was elected by ...

The first American ... in Rome. Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost as the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church.

The first American elected pontiff, Pope Leo XIV was born and raised in Chicago before undertaking his ministry in Peru. Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches and celebrated from their homes as ...

Read more › Catholics in America: The election of the first American pope comes at a time when 20 percent of American adults identify as Catholic ... the church saw it in the late 19th century, ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...