NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York, about the significance of the Cardinals electing the first pope from the United States.

In a moment bathed in the golden light of the Sistine Chapel, as Michelangelo’s frescoes gazed down in solemn silence, the ...

In just over 24 hours and after at least four separate ballots, 133 cardinals reached a historic consensus beneath the ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's ...

The ritual for electing a new pope took social media by storm this week as content creators reacted to the ancient tradition ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the Unites States delivers the "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and to the ...

Louis Prevost reflected Friday on watching his younger brother, Robert Francis Prevost, become Pope Leo XIV live on ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, has something in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy. He’s been in positions of ...

Who would have thought that Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle’s “first act of charity” to then cardinal, now Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost would be giving him a candy? And it’s not just the new pope ...

Seeing then Robert Cardinal Prevost in deep thought and appearing anxious upon realizing he was to be elected pope, his ...

Pope Leo XIV came out May 8, 2025 to the balcony of the Sistine Chapel wearing the traditional garb for a new pope, a red ...

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior cardinal deacon announced. The 69-year-old Chicago native is the first ...