Born in the U.S., forged in Peru, chosen in Rome, Leo XIV will helm a church facing debt, division and decline ...

Bishop Edinson Farfán of Chiclayo, Peru, is publicly defending the actions of his predecessor, now Pope Leo XIV, in the face ...

"The pope is Peruvian; God loves Peru," she said. Follow our live updates Pope Leo XIV marks new beginning for Catholic Church Continuity the key for Pope seen as unifier in the Church Who is the ...

Robert Francis Prevost – now Pope Leo XIV – is the first American elected to lead 1.4 billion Catholics around the world. He ...

FROM a budding maths genius in the US to an adventurous missionary in Peru – horse riding Pope Leo XIV has now reached the ...

The new head of the global Roman Catholic Church was born in Chicago, but spent decades in Peru. He first arrived in 1985 as a young missionary in the mostly impoverished north, spending many of ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

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Over in the Apostolic Palace - now unsealed - Robert Prevost held a moment of private prayer. Then, for the first time, he re ...

What would this mean for the divides within the American church ... friend, Peru is with you,” except it’s better when it rhymes.) These memories were my reaction as a Catholic, as a believer ...