The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...

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

Francis may have been globally admired, but within the church hierarchy he was a polarizing figure. This could have resulted ...

As Pope Leo XIV stepped out in front of cheering crowds outside of St. Peter’s Basilica to give his first speech as head of ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

Two Albany Catholic Diocese leaders spoke to reporters shortly after Pope Leo XIV made his first appearance in Vatican City's ...

It is the quickest papal election in a century, beating the conclave of 2005, when Joseph Ratzinger claimed the title in less ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

Robert Prevost, first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church, takes the name Leo XIV after been chosen by the ...

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...

Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago and earned a degree from Villanova University, but spent 20 years as a missionary and then a ...