Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

Robert Prevost, who took the name Pope Leo XIV, is leading his first Mass. The former Augustinian leader is the first ...

The first American pope succeeds Francis, preaching peace while confronting Church divides and urgent global crises.

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed ...

Robert Francis Prevost was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, becoming the first pope from the ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, ...

Pope Leo XIV has been elected following roughly 24 hours of deliberation among the 133-member College of Cardinals, the ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St.

The Chicago native is also a Peruvian citizen and lived for years in Peru, first as a missionary and then as an archbishop.

White smoke poured from a chimney above the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, signaling that the 133 cardinals sequestered inside ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...