VATICAN CITY -- In his very first sermon as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV told the cardinals who elected him that anyone who ...

FILE - Newly elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, right, receives his biretta from Pope Francis as he is elevated in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, who has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV, has been elected the 267th bishop of Rome and leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. The new pope takes over a church that is ...

A train service to the Rockaways resumed Monday after a monthslong closure for storm-resilience upgrades on a stretch of track damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Since January, the MTA had suspended A ...