He will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, has been elected the first American pope in the ...

As a missionary and bishop in Peru, the future Pope Leo came face-to-face with one of the most serious and far-reaching ...

Father Robert Prevost first arrived in Peru in 1985 during a time of crisis, the aftermath of devastating El Niño rains that ...

Here’s a look at what we discovered about some of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV’s family members in the Tribune archives.

By Alek Buttermann The election of US Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, as the new head of the Catholic Church has placed Peru under an unexpected international spotlight. Prevost, an ...

Here's what we know so far about Prevost's ties to Chicago and the Land of Lincoln ... Ordained in 1982, Prevost spent much of his clerical life in Peru, serving as Bishop of Chiclayo from ...

This momentous occasion crowned an extraordinary career in both service and reform. A Chicago native with deep ties to Peru, Prevost becomes the first American pope, a landmark event not just for the ...

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with interfaith environmental networks and Indigenous organizations to place forest prot ...

For years, there were allegations of abuse within the hugely influential Catholic society Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV), which had deep ties ... public. Prevost, who lived in Peru as a ...