Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected Thursday by the conclave to serve as pope, becoming Pope Leo XIV at the age of 69. Prevost, a missionary who dedicated his career to ministry in Peru ...

How Leo confronts the lingering global crisis could be of particular interest to Catholics in the Philadelphia region.

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 his f ...

Peruvians were elated Thursday after a Catholic cardinal who spent years guiding the faithful in the South American country ...

In his first address as head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV offered a special greeting to the Diocese of Chiclayo in northern Peru, where he once served as a missionary and Archbishop Emeritus.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, an missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s ...

The United States will have its first leader of the Roman Catholic church ... appointed him apostolic administrator of the diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, elevating him to the dignity of bishop ...