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

For American Catholics, the elevation of Robert Prevost to the papacy was a shock, a cause for celebration and a chance for ...

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

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

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

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

Pope Leo XIV gave his first mass as head of the Catholic Church in the Sistine Chapel on Friday, saying that the Church must fight "lack of faith" as people were increasingly turning to ...

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

Appointed by Francis as prefect of the strategic Dicastery for Bishops, this native of Chicago has supported the Argentine pope's reforms. He is the first American pope.

The first pope from the U.S. was born. On Tuesday, the second day of the conclave, 133 cardinal electors elected U.S.

There is little without precedent in the Catholic Church, but it is fair to say nothing exactly like the election of Pope Leo ...

Robert Prevost of the U.S. is the new Catholic pontiff, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. The Chicago-born cardinal ministered in ...