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Pope Leo XIV was elected as the Catholic Church's 267th leader on Thursday. ABC News. Video. Live. Shows. Shop. ... Vatican Media/AFP via Getty Images. By David Brennan, Jon Haworth, Julia Jacobo, ...

That fence encircles the campo centrale of the Catholic church: the Vatican City tennis court — now under the dominion of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, or rather Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo’s life begins in Chicago, where he was born on Sept. 14, 1955. He grew up worshiping at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in the city’s South Side, where he served as an altar boy and ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo ... American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. ... Rome during the Argentine pope's pontificate and were hoping for a new pope in Francis' image.

(Vatican Pool / Getty Images) Francis named 108 of the 133 “princes of the church,” choosing many pastors in his image from far-flung countries such as Mongolia, Sweden and Tonga that had ...

No phones, no news — only God and church politics as Catholic elders choose Francis' successor On Wednesday, 133 cardinal electors will gather under Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.

US President Donald Trump posted an AI image of himself as the pope, prompting accusations of poor taste in the Roman Catholic community just days before the conclave to elect Pope Francis’s ...

ROME — As Catholic cardinals prepare to choose a successor to Pope Francis, church leaders, politicians and pundits blasted President Donald Trump on Sunday for sharing an AI-generated image of ...

Today — in the middle of the church's official nine days of mourning for the late pope — the White House's official Twitter account posted an AI-generated image of the president dressed as pope.