Prevost, 69, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and led the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops ...

Robert Prevost’s election as pope stunned many Catholics skeptical that an American would ever be elevated to that role.

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

Fr. Thomas Reese used to be certain no American would be elected pope. Now, he admits, he has been proved wrong with this new ...

The conclave elects Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago.

Americans in St. Peter's Square were stunned and joyous when they learned that an American cardinal, Robert Provost, was ...

The school's students and staff expressed shock and excitement following the recent election of the first-ever American pope.

Reaction was swift, widespread and boisterous in Chicago on Thursday after the Vatican announced the election of the ...

From priests on pogo sticks celebrating in St. Peter’s Square to the crowd outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, the ...

“It was certainly a surprise, frankly ... of the electors went beyond the sort of political considerations of American superpower status, simply to find the best man available, who, in a ...

"Usually Catholics from the United States never, ever get to be pope, so that was kind of a shock and surprise and actually ...

Now that the initial surprise and celebration have passed, how will American Catholics respond ... Even though he is a Chicago native and a White Sox fan known to many of his friends as Bob ...