Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s office ...

White smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney at the Vatican, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the ...

His election reflects a Church that is not shrinking but expanding — a Church alive in every corner of the world, including ...

The contrast between President Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark, politically, personally, or in ...

the Vatican announced the day after stunning the world with the election of the first pope from the United States in the Church's history. Leo, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ...

Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world ... Catholic Church on Thursday and took the name Pope Leo XIV, is the first pope from the ...

The remarks, delivered in Italian and Spanish, were made from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. Pope Leo XIV delivered his first public remarks since taking over as leader of the Roman ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

Pope Leo XIV has promised to make the Catholic Church a balm for the world’s “dark nights”, as he celebrated his first mass as pontiff less than 24 hours after being elected. Sixty-nine-year ...