American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, saying his service to the poor and the church had propelled him to the papacy.

The night before the conclave, Pope Leo XIV gave his brother a hint that he ... Older brother John Prevost revealed the shocking details from a prophetic phone call he had with Cardinal Robert ...

Pope Leo XIV said his ... his first Mass and details began to emerge of how votes quickly coalesced to make him history’s first American pope. Freed from their conclave, Catholic cardinals ...