New American pontiff Robert Prevost to hold first mass after historic election - The 69-year-old former cardinal was chosen ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

Leo, the Chicago-born Augustinian missionary Robert Prevost, surprised the world Thursday when he emerged on the loggia of St ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's ...

Students, faculty, and staff came together at Parkersburg Catholic High School on May 8 to see the historic moment of the ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

The United States was often deemed too powerful — militarily, diplomatically, and even culturally — for one of its own to ...

The new pontiff and Bernard Hebda, the archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, have exchanged letters but ...

Robert Prevost, an American Cardinal, is now the 267th pope to represent the Catholic Church. White smoke bellowed from the ...

Leaders called the decision from the conclave “a powerful moment for the Catholic Church — and for American Catholics.” ...