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

Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the first pope from the United States. But in Peru, he is known as ...

The morning after John Prevost watched his younger brother Robert become Pope Leo XIV, he received a familiar phone call.

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...

Leo’s ascent occurred with remarkable speed. Just over two years ago, he’d been one of the church’s 5,400 bishops — a role with no global visibility.

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until ...

Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.

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

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.

Standing on loggia of St. Peter's basilica, newly elected Pope Leo XIV smiled, waved and appeared to hold back emotion May 8 ...

Walsh, left, and community leader Theresa Mahoney, are seen here with a Time magazine cover shot of Pope Leo XIV, who has a connection with the Ursulines from his days serving in Peru. They are in ...