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White smoke at Vatican, phones blowing up in Chicago: Their old classmate Robert is pope
Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.
Chicago native Robert Prevost becomes the first pope from the US in history
Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, ...
Chicago Augustinians defend their longtime member, the new pope, on his handling of the sex abuse crisis
The Catholic religious order's Chicago-based province released a statement about Robert Prevost, who this week became Pope ...
How a Chicago native became pope: See Robert Francis Prevost's path to making history
Taking the name Leo XIV, the American was elected to be the 267th pontiff and spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion ...
These St. Rita students picked Cardinal Robert Prevost for new pope just because he's from Chicago
The students were blunt: None of them expected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago-born cardinal who had served for ...
Cardinal Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, is the first pope from the United States
Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...
Robert Prevost was ‘the pride and joy of every priest and nun’ who grew up in Chicago’s south side
Robert Prevost’s Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south side suburbs, where he grew up playing “pretend priest” and ...
The Internet’s Funniest Jokes About the Chicago Pope
Pope Leo has been on Twitter since 2011 and has a history of tweets that are now being dissected by online sleuths and ...