In a jubilant atmosphere, more than 10,000 faithful gathered in front of the Basilica and Cathedral of Santa María de ...

In Peru, Pope Leo XIV is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded the region, ...

"The pope is Peruvian; God loves Peru," she said. Follow our live updates Pope Leo XIV marks new beginning for Catholic Church Continuity the key for Pope seen as unifier in the Church Who is the ...

The Thursday, May 8 election of Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost as the Catholic Church’s 267th Pontiff is a defining moment ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S.

Over in the Apostolic Palace - now unsealed - Robert Prevost held a moment of private prayer. Then, for the first time, he re ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican's powerful ...

FROM a budding maths genius in the US to an adventurous missionary in Peru – horse riding Pope Leo XIV has now reached the ...

Born in Chicago in 1955, Prevost carved out a career in the Church soon after leaving school. He studied mathematics at Villanova before going on to join the Order of St Augustine and being ordained ...

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong also wrote to the new pope to congratulate him.