Before he was chosen, Robert Francis Prevost had the papal seal of approval from his predecessor, Francis, who put him in one ...

More than a century ago, Pope Leo XIII issued Rerum Novarum , the Church’s groundbreaking endorsement of workers’ rights.

For Catholic theologians, the significance of the name could not be clearer, with the new pope tying himself to one of the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...