Seniors at St. Rita High School on Chicago's Southwest Side were given a pretty straightforward assignment this week: choose ...

The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...

As U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost realized during the secret conclave that he might be elected the next Catholic pope, he put ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost may be the first person from the U.S. to become the head of the Catholic Church but his surprising ...

The Vatican announced the election of Pope Leo XIV shortly after white smoke blew from the roof of the Sistine Chapel on ...

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...

The bells of the cathedral in Peru’s capital, Lima, rang after Prevost was elected pope. Robert Prevost, an missionary who ...

On day two of the conclave and after only four rounds of voting, Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected and will be known as ...

On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new ...

A U.S. bishop thought it was unlikely that Catholic cardinals would break with more than two centuries of precedent to pick a ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the new pope, set to succeed the late Pope Francis and mark the first time ...