VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

There had long been a taboo against a U.S. pope, but Prevost, a Chicago native, was seemingly eligible also because he's a ...

He served as a bishop in Chiclayo in northwest Peru from 2015 to 2023, and became a Peruvian citizen in 2015, so he has dual nationality. In 2023, he became a cardinal. Pope Leo is a member of the ...