Almost a decade ago, award-winning film director Paolo Sorrentino launched his first series, with Jude Law playing the first pope from the US. Is reality now catching up with fiction?

Robert Francis Prevost was a relatively low-profile cardinal from Chicago. But on May 8, the 69-year-old stunned the world ...

When white smoke curled into the Roman sky and the world learned that the College of Cardinals had elected Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, Pope Leo XIV--an American--it was met with mixed emotions ...

While many Catholics are celebrating the election, a growing number of online conspiracy theorists are turning their ...

Pope Leo XIV has joined the lineup of the iconic figures at the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, as two Pope Leo bobbleheads were unveiled on Friday, May 9, 2025.

Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle said he was confident that Pope Leo XIV would continue the programs of the late Pope ...

Japanese Cardinal Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo says Pope Leo XIV’s previous work as a missionary and as a Vatican official were ...

On Thursday afternoon, white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City as Catholics and non-Catholics alike around the world watched with great interest to see who would be chosen as the ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

The US leader also emphasized that he won the Catholic vote by a wide margin and urged ABC News president Robert Iger to be more careful in choosing employees ...

While he has been to the Philippines several times before he became Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost’s return to the ...