Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected Pope Leo XIV, marking the first American to hold the position.

Robert Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV. He is the first American to lead the Catholic Church. Prevost was born in Chicago. He ...

The new leader of the Catholic Church, American Robert Francis Prevost Martinez, has a surprisingly strong connection with ...

Robert Prevost was brought to the Vatican in 2023 by Pope Francis as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop ...

The deputy secretary of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference said he is “sure that the heart of Pope Leo XIV ... will greatly ...

The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Cardinal Robert Prevost may be the first person from the U.S. to become the head of the Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV will make a “darn good pope,” New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan has said, as the first American-born pontiff led ...

Born in Chicago to a French father and an Italian mother, and later a missionary in Peru where he earned citizenship, Pope ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old Augustinian missionary and former archbishop in Peru, has been elected as the 267th ...

Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order who spent his career ministering in Peru, took the ...

Pope Leo XIV's French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging into ...