Catholics around the world continue to celebrate the election last week of Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from ... a U.S. citizen can lose his or her citizenship. These can include committing ...

Pope Leo XIV's election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a foreign ...

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

He relinquished his American citizenship after being elected.___AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano in Mexico City contributed to this story. Bynum reported from Savannah, Georgia. Pope Leo XIV's ...