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Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States is the new pope, succeeding Pope Francis, and taking the name Pope Leo XIV. He’s ...

Days after Pope Leo XIV’s historic election, his brother is under scrutiny for a profane, politically charged social media ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

He was born at Mercy Hospital in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, making him the first American to ever be elected by the ...

Pope Leo was born in the United States, but for his adopted nation of Peru, he is a “Chiclayano” – a son of the bustling northern Peruvian city where everyone seems to have a story about him.

Pontiff makes veiled swipe at Trump with call to ‘disarm our words’ - The press conference comes after the newly elected ...

On Thursday afternoon, white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City as Catholics and non-Catholics alike around the world watched with great interest to see who would be chosen as the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, O.S.A. was elected as the first American pope on May 8, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. The Chicago ...

While he has been to the Philippines several times before he became Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost’s return to the ...

Robert Francis Prevost, a Villanova University graduate and a Chicago native, was chosen as the first American pope in ...