The Chicago-born pope has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Peru, where he was a missionary and a bishop. | Opinion ...

Argentine cardinal Angel Rossi, one of the 133 now gathered at the Vatican to elect a new pope, told Reuters before the ...

For Vatican experts, the election of American Robert Francis Prevost Martinez as the new pope sends clear political and symbolic signals both within and outside the Catholic world ...

Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...

The late pope’s attention to geographic detail led to what was described as the most diverse conclave in the history of the ...

Augustinian Cardinal Robert Prevost was the least American among the American cardinals, having spent most of his ministry in ...

Cardinal Robert Provost, elected as the first American pope, was a close friend of Pope Francis, lived in Latin America for ...

Last week was quite special for the estimated 1.2 billion Catholics around the world when white smoke billowed across St.

The Catholic Church has entered a new historic era with the election of American-Peruvian Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th ...

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