Robert Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV. He is the first American to lead the Catholic Church. Prevost was born in Chicago. He served as a missionary in Pe

The development came after white smoke billowed above the Sistine Chapel, the signal that cardinals had selected a new pontiff on the second day of the conclave.

Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost) is the second Roman Pontiff, after Pope Francis, from the Americas. Unlike Jorge Mario Bergoglio, however, the