Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful ...

Church bells rang out for hours in celebration at Villanova University in suburban Philadelphia after one of their graduates ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday in the Sistine Chapel, where he was elected less than 24 hours earlier, ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost from Phoenix is named Pope Leo XIV, sparking excitement in the local Catholic community and ...

During the mass, Bishop Timothy Senior, who leads the Diocese of Harrisburg, spoke to those assembled at the cathedral during his homily about the example he believed Pope Leo would set in terms of ...

One cardinal who cast his ballot said the pope’s choice of the papal name Leo might signal a particular interest in workers’ ...

We were waiting with bated breath to see what would happen,” the Very Rev. Anthony Benedetto Pizzo said, speaking from Southern Italy, about his old friend being ...

There are no biographic books—yet—on the first American to be named pope, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost. But Catholic publishers ...

Papal Conclave selected an American as the new pope. Cardinal Robert Prevost, was born in Chicago in 1955, and is the first ...

The Catholic religious order's Chicago-based province released a statement about Robert Prevost, who this week became Pope ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago and raised in the south suburb of Dolton, where even his old house has become a point of pilgrimage.

The inauguration Mass on May 18 will be the formal installation ceremony where Pope Leo XIV will receive the Fisherman’s Ring and the pallium as symbols of his papal office. The “taking possession” ...