Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

Pope Leo XIV graduated in 1977. And while some might have guessed he studied theology or philosophy, the truth is far more ...

The new Chicago-born pope did not shy from world events in his public address following a prayer to the Virgin Mary, as he cited the recent 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, a conflict ...

88-year-old Pope Francis passed away two weeks ago, and on Thursday the new pope was announced as Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago, who took the name Pope Leo upon his ascension. No sooner was the ...