Taking the name Leo XIV, the American was elected to be the 267th pontiff and spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion ...

St. Mary of the Assumption Parish included this photo commemorating the 1982 meeting of a newly ordained Robert Prevost and ...

As America, especially the United States and Chicago celebrated the elect of an American pope, the newly elected pontiff Leo ...

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...

Robert Prevost’s Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south side suburbs, where he grew up playing “pretend priest” and ...

Leo XIV’s predecessor Pope Francis, birth name Jorge Maria Bergoglio, appointed 80% of the cardinals who voted to elect one ...

A Chicago-born Cardinal is getting attention as a possible contender to be the new pope, but scholars say an American in the ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost has spent much of his time serving in Peru. He was elected the first American pope from ...

After multiple votes over two days, Cardinal Robert Prevost, who was raised in Chicago, has been elected as the first-ever ...

A U.S. bishop thought it was unlikely that Catholic cardinals would break with more than two centuries of precedent to pick a ...

Robert Prevost, a 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 2,000-year ...

Pope Francis' successor has been elected, and it's the first American pope. Here's what we know about Cardinal Robert Prevost ...