Despite the order’s 800-year history — and its Italian origins — Pope Leo XIV is the first Augustinian to be named a pope.

Pope Leo XIV's former surname, Prevost, immediately piqued the interest of Jari Honora, a certified genealogist and a family historian for the Historic New Orleans Collection museum.

Less than 48 hours after being elected, Pope Leo XIV traveled 40 miles southeast from the Vatican to pray at a Marian shrine ...

Between 2015 and 2023, then-Bishop Robert F. Prevost shepherded the Diocese of Chiclayo through some of its most difficult ...

"The true grandeur of the church ... is alive in the rich variety of her members in union with her one head, Christ," Pope ...

The Church has been blessed once again with a beloved shepherd to lead us in faith and unity," said New Jersey Cardinal ...

How many people on Thursday, May 8, while waiting for the cardinals to elect a new pope, said, "It will never be an American!

Pope Leo's first public words, "Peace be with you," could not have been "a more kind, a more gentle, a more pastoral opening," said one papal historian.

Catholic groups from around the nation are elated by the newly chosen Pope Leo XIV, while assuring him of their prayers and ...

Looking at the challenges that the church in the United States is facing, "I hope to be able to respond to them with healthy ...

"It was a very impressive ecclesial, spiritual and human experience," Chilean Cardinal Fernando Chomalí said about the ...

The seagulls perched on the Sistine Chapel rooftop undoubtedly saw the white smoke first. But it didn't take long for the ...