President Donald Trump said the selection of Cardinal Robert F. Prevost to be pope is "a great honor" for the U.S., noting he ...

Robert Francis Prevost, 69, an Augustinian and former bishop in Peru, represents the triumph of continuity — but with the ...

"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...

Cardinals elected Leo to the supreme pontificate on Thursday afternoon, with white smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel ...

The first pope from the U.S. was born. On Tuesday, the second day of the conclave, 133 cardinal electors elected U.S.

Catholics in the U.S. are used to thinking of the pope as a remote figure. Enter Pope Leo XIV, a native speaker of American ...

Born as Robert Francis Prevost in 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, Pope Leo XIV grew up in a devout Catholic family in the Midwest.

Prevost, a 69 member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. He appeared on the loggia of St. Peter’s ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

Robert Prevost, elected pope Thursday, grew up in Dolton. Former neighbors and local Catholics reacted to the election of the ...