Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope.

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

Pope Leo XIV held the first mass of his papacy Friday morning in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel with the cardinals who elected ...

Newly installed Pope Leo XIV will hold a Mass with cardinals in the Sistine Chapel on Friday, a day after he was elected as ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

A formal Mass to mark the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV will take place on May 18 in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced ...

Robert Prevost, who took the name Pope Leo XIV, led his first Mass at the Sistine Chapel. He is the first American pope in ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first mass in the Sistine Chapel on Friday morning, just a day after being elected to replace the ...

Leo XIV celebrated his first mass as pope on Friday, the day after becoming the first US head of the Catholic Church, with ...

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

The mass comes less than a day after 133 cardinal electors selected Leo as the 267th pope of the Catholic Church.