"We are simply overjoyed," said Sister Barbara Reid, president of Catholic Theological Union in Hyde Park, where Pope Leo ...

W.Va., introduces a House resolution to celebrate the election of the first-ever pope born in the United States.

Italians — and Romans in particular — have had mixed responses to the so-called “American pope.” Most are cautiously ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...