In “American Pope: Leo XIV’s Road from the South Side of Chicago to Vatican City,” NPR journalists, Daniel Burke and Scott Detrow present the first comprehensive, impressively sourced biography of the new pontiff. The two journalists spent the year after Leo’s election reporting in Peru, Chicago, and Rome. As a result, readers are introduced to a man at varying stages of his life and now leader of the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV thanked thousands of faithful in St. Peter's Square on Sunday for their prayers while he was hospitalized, and said he plans to gradually return to his usual duties.

The Pope left Rome's Gemelli Hospital Saturday, days after surgery for lung cancer removed the lower lobe of his right lung. He is currently scheduled to travel to Latin America in November.

Pope Leo XIV had surgery on Tuesday to remove a cancerous growth in his lung, the Vatican announced.

Pope Leo XIV said he would undergo surgery after doctors found a "localized nodule" in his lung.

When the 2025 conclave began, no one expected an American pope. But by its end, Cardinal Robert Prevost had become Pope Leo. Here's a look behind the scenes.

Pope Leo XIV raised existential concerns about scientific progress, life and human rights during a speech on his first papal visit to France.

A Dallas appellate court has reversed a trial court's decision that previously denied motions to dismiss Gateway Church and some church elders from a defamation lawsuit from the woman Morris sexually abused when she was a child.

Frisco is getting a new mosque, Hindu temple and Jain temple — and many immigrants say that's led to new hostility from some of their neighbors.

The Vatican last week issued a decree excommunicating priests part of the Society of Saint Pius X. The SSPX has several chapels in the state.