Yet the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel chose Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native, as the 267th pope of the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIII, who served from 1878 to 1903, led the church into the modern world, emphasizing its moral authority beyond ...

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

VATICAN CITY — Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago, is also the first pope to be an Augustinian. Here's what it means to be an Augustian.

After the announcement of the election of Pope Leo XIV, Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenburger said he wanted to do "my ...

Habemus papam!” Those words echoed to the faithful around the world, including those waiting outside St. Peter’s Basilica as jubilous cheers erupted from the crowd. “We have a pope!” In his first ...

VENICE – Most Rev. Frank J. Dewane, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Venice, asked that members of the Diocese join him in prayer for Pope Leo XIV – referred to as the Successor of St. Peter – as the ...

Robert Prevost's new papal name will be analyzed for its connections to history, religious meaning, and for clues on the ...

It takes place from the Loggia of the Blessings Hall of the Vatican Basilica, with a Latin formula inspired by chapter 2 of ...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, several Italian politicians and former winners Ivan Basso and Alberto Contador attended the presentation in Rome's Auditorium della Musica, as did Giro d'Italia ...