The new pope, Robert Prevost, who has taken the name Leo XIV, just broke a longstanding taboo on having an American pope, after Prevost was brought to the Vatican by Pope Francis himself ...

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

Robert Francis Prevost, the first pope from the United States ... Prevost's commitment as a missionary in Peru to the "peripheries" -- overlooked areas far from Rome prioritised by Francis -- and his ...

Latest news and live updates as the election process for the next pope continues. The cardinals met for their first conclave ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost – now known as Pope Leo XIV — is the first pope from the United States. The 69-year-old from ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

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 ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been named the first American pope, selected Thursday by 133 cardinals from across the globe on the second day of the papal conclave in Rome. The new pontiff, who ...

Prevost, 69, is a Chicago native and a Villanova graduate. He said his chosen papal name would be Pope Leo XIV.

Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the 267th pope, and the first United States citizen to become the bishop of Rome. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a shocking vote that caught the Catholic world ...

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed ...