Young Catholics have said they hope the newly elected Pope will be a role model in the Church. Pope Leo XIV was unveiled on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica after his election on Thursday evening.

Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, called for peace in Gaza and Ukraine at his inaugural mass.

Pope Leo’s unusual crusade should be a model for every religion. Just days after the new pope, Leo XIV, took up his position ...

Pope Francis, who took his name from the patron saint of ecology -- St. Francis of Assisi -- died the day before Earth Day ...

White smoke appeared from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel on Thursday, signaling that cardinals had elected a successor to Pope Francis ... (Vatican Media/Getty Images) Statues are silhouetted ...

But there he was: the first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church. Prevost, like Parolin, was a close ally of Francis ... standard Catholic stuff—pictures of church gatherings ...

A dual-national, he’s also the first Peruvian citizen to serve as pope. Born on September 14, 1955, in Chicago, Illinois, Pope Leo (née Robert Francis ... Here, see photos of Pope Leo ...

ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images ... also like Francis, being against their ordination as priests. Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost would make history as the first pope from the United ...

Latest news and live updates as the election process for the next pope continues. The cardinals met for their first conclave vote last night.

Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times Pope Leo XIV, though born in the United States, spoke in Italian and Spanish, but not English. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images ... like a choice of following ...

He later spent two decades carrying out missionary work in Peru before Pope Francis called him back to ... “My vocation, like that of every Christian, is to be a missionary, to proclaim the ...

"I had nothing to do with it, somebody made a picture of me dressed like the Pope and they put ... new pontiff on Wednesday after the death of Pope Francis last month. The rituals of the event ...