Just hours after stepping onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to greet a cheering crowd, Pope Leo XIV quietly returned ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...

Prevost, the 267th leader of the church and the first American pope, is now Leo XIV. But back when he was skinny undergrad at Nova, he was just Robert. The Chicago native was in what the church calls ...

US Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been chosen as the 267th leader of the Catholic Church.Senior cardinal Dominique Mamberti announced the new pope to cheering crowds on St Peter's balcony, saying ...

Chicago native Robert Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV. Prevost had been a long shot to people keeping track of the conclave, but ...

Leo, born in Chicago, Illinois in 1955, became a novitiate in the Order of Saint Augustine at 22 years old after graduating ...

All four of Pope Leo XIV’s maternal great-grandparents were “free people of color” in Louisiana based on 19th-century census ...

I am a Peruvian who embraced America, and the pope is an American who embraced Peru.

Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.

American cardinals who participated in the conclave that elected history’s first-ever pope from the United States hailed him ...

Pope Leo XIV, elected on Thursday, is the first pope from the Order of St. Augustine (OSA), also known as the Augustinians, ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, has been elected the new pope under the papal name Pope Leo XIV, making him the first pope from the U.S.