Revised textbooks on the five Native American tribes that share geography with North Dakota will be ready in time for next school year. For about three decades, the books went without updates due ...

Before we met Pope Leo XIV, shows like "The New Pope" and "The Young Pope" mythologized the Vatican to the masses.

The American cardinal’s very selection as pope speaks volumes about the role he could play in a world desperately in need of ...

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.

After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a pope had been chosen, students in every ...

Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...

The election of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, as the new pontiff has delighted Catholics and ...

The papal conclave was officially over at around 6 p.m. local time Thursday after white smoke was seen rising from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling a new pope had been elected.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost chose the name Leo XIV, linking him to a Catholic doctrine that seeks social and economic ...

Although any baptized Catholic man is technically eligible to be the pope, none of the previous 266 popes in history had been from America.

Cardinal Robert Prevost has taken the name Leo XIV and is the first American pope in the church’s 2,000-year history.