The new pope's French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the Big Easy.

The pope also has a more direct role on everyday Americans, in the sense that he is the head of a church followed by 20 ...

Pope Leo XIV will make a “darn good pope,” New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan has said, as the first American-born pontiff led ...

In the verdant suburb of Philadelphia, locals, professors and students revelled as Cardinal Prevost was elected Pope Leo XIV ...

Federal agents investigating New York City Mayor Eric Adams were still seizing phones and applying for search warrants days ...

Standing beneath Michelangelo’s towering fresco of the Last Judgement, newly elected Pope Leo XIV delivered his first papal ...

When the white smoke rose, a new pope emerged. The new leader of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo ...