Before the selection of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was announced, people offered their predictions on who would become ...

P olitical figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election ...

From the St. Peter’s Basilica to his native Chicago to his diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, Catholic faithful around the world ...

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The election of Pope Leo XIV as the first-American pontiff shocked the world, and Chicago residents rejoiced in the Holy ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful office of bishops ...

A new pope has officially been elected as white smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St ...

Asked whether it was unexpected for an American to be elected, Father Reese said: “Oh yeah, shocking.” Robert Prevost, who ...

To discuss the implications of Robert Prevost’s election as pope, for both the church and for the world’s 1.4 billion ...