A top candidate seen by many Vatican observers as having been the likely next pope said on Saturday that he was satisifed ...

Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV — has been elected, a mere 249 years after the founding of the nation.

The morning after John Prevost watched his younger brother Robert become Pope Leo XIV, he received a familiar phone call.

He took the name Pope Leo XIV after the 133 College of Cardinals members elected him, on the second day of balloting at the ...

As Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost becomes Pope Leo XIV, Chicago sports fans wonder if he will bless the city's struggling ...

Prevost, the 267th leader of the church and the first American pope, is now Leo XIV. But back when he was skinny undergrad at Nova, he was just Robert. The Chicago native was in what the church calls ...

After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a pope had been chosen, students in every ...

Already on the second day of the conclave, a decision was made on the election of the new head of the Catholic Church. The cardinals elected Robert Francis Prevost, making it the first time an ...

For the first time in the history of the Vatican, an American Cardinal has been elected to lead as the head of the global ...

Pope Leo apparently will take issue with one of the US President's most aggressive policies, according to his brother.

He is a man formed by his experience in the church of Chicago, especially the south side,’ writes Mark Francis, CSV.

Chicago native Robert Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV. Prevost had been a long shot to people keeping track of the conclave, but ...