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He pleaded guilty in 2018 to abusing a 9-year-old boy at a Maine church in the 1990s and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope, became a rare case of an American citizen serving as a foreign head of state.

Vice President JD Vance met with the first American pope at the Vatican on Monday morning.

Pope Leo XIV was selected as the 267th pontiff after the death of Pope Francis April 21.

The graphic installation at Rate Field marks the location where the future pope cheered for Chicago in Game 1 of the 2005 World Series.

President Donald Trump has appointed San Francisco’s archbishop to serve on his newly established Religious Liberty Commission.

President Donald Trump has appointed San Francisco’s archbishop to serve on his newly established Religious Liberty Commission.

Just days after cardinals elected a new leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV delivered his first noon blessing on Sunday.

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological spectrum in Pope Leo XIV’s homeland, raising the question of whether he might be able to ease some of the deep divisions within its ranks.

Pope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of hostages and delivery of humanitarian aid.

Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters facing humanity.

John Prevost, one of the older brothers of Pope Leo XIV, said he briefly spoke with the pope to inform him they were headed to Rome.

Pope Leo’s childhood home in a Chicago suburb was recently listed for sale for under $250,000 — until Thursday, that is. It appears the listing for the small home in Dolton, Illinois, a suburb south of Chicago, was taken down just after the new pope was elected. The 750-square-foot home on East 141st Place had been put up for sale...

“I think people will be very impressed with him,” Villanova president Peter Donohue said of the new pope, who graduated from the university in 1977.

Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was both a cross and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel.

Catholic churches and their parishioners across the Bay Area reacted Thursday to the election of American Robert Francis Prevost as the new pope. Pete Suratos has the latest details.

Across the Bay Area, Catholics rejoiced after hearing the news that U.S.-born Robert Francis Prevos, was elected as pope. Prevos, who assumed the name Pope Leo XIV, is the first North American-born pope. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to understand the historic moment.

The new American pope received a very American reception in Vatican City.

Catholic churches and their parishioners across the Bay Area reacted to the election of American Robert Francis Prevost as the new pope on Thursday. Robert Handa reports.