Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S.

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

O n May 8, just days after his election, Pope Leo XIV sent a remarkable signal to the Jewish world: In a personal letter to ...

I share an ancestral connection with Pope Leo XIV. What does that story say about race, religion, and ancestry in America?

Michael Pham knows what it feels like to struggle for breath in a cloud of tear gas. Pham was born in Vietnam in 1967 as the war reached a boiling point, and his family repeatedly tried to flee the ...

"It was such a thrill for me when Apostolic Nuncio Christophe Pierre gave me a call" May 14, Pham told a press conference at ...

Pope Leo likes Wordle. People who play it like words, and they probably try to be precise when they’re speaking. That will ...

In Chicago, people are very excited about Pope Leo XIV, or Father Bob, as those who’ve known Robert Francis Prevost a long ...

the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New Orleans, Louisiana, records show. ABC News has obtained several records, including U.S. Census records from the ...

Reports that the new leader of the Catholic Church has mixed African ancestry offer a fascinating antidote to President Trump’s attacks on diversity in America.

The last three pontiffs each chose very different paths between Rome and home.

There’s no record the new pope ever identified as Black, and he may never have researched his family’s roots in New Orleans.