In 2025, Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago, emerged as the first American Pope after a swift two-day ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of St. Peter's Basilica ...

The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the Big Easy.

The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists ...

“The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church elected Robert Francis Prevost as their 267th pontiff on Thursday, ending a ...