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 ...

In Peru, Pope Leo XIV is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded the region, ...

Advocates for victims of sex abuse say there needs to be an accounting of how then-Cardinal Robert Prevost handled such cases ...

The Catholic Church has entered a new historic era with the election of American-Peruvian Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th ...

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 ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

Prevost, a U.S. native and naturalized citizen of Peru, spent his childhood growing up in Chicago. Here's what we know about his family.

On Thursday afternoon, the Rev. Thomas L. Gillespie of St. Patrick Church of St. Oscar Romero Parish and staff members were ...

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church of his new country, Peru. In fact, he became a Peruvian citizen,” Canadian ...

On Thursday, the Vatican in Rome made history when the conclave of cardinals chose U.S.-born Robert Francis Prevost to be the ...

Walsh, left, and community leader Theresa Mahoney, are seen here with a Time magazine cover shot of Pope Leo XIV, who has a connection with the Ursulines from his days serving in Peru. They are in ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...