Though Leo XIV is from Chicago, his election to the papacy reflects the move of Christianity toward the Global South.

Papal Conclave selected an American as the new pope. Cardinal Robert Prevost, was born in Chicago in 1955, and is the first ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

The idyllic campus of Villanova University is ecstatic since the election of American Robert Prevost to the highest seat of ...

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

US President Donald Trump celebrated Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost's election as Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born ...

ROME - The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

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

Baraniak is confident Pope Leo XIV has plenty of other connections in Northeast Wisconsin.

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

As Pope Leo XIV takes up his role, Sky's Europe correspondent considers what stands ahead for the first pope from the United ...