History was made Thursday when cardinals gathered in Rome for the conclave elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the first ever ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago, is also the first pope to be an Augustinian. Here's what it means to be an Augustian.

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

Another Chicagoan offered kind words to the new pope on Thursday, as former President Barack Obama sent a message on social ...

Robert Francis Prevost, who was born in Chicago and lived for two decades in Peru, was elected the 267th pope of the Roman ...

Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez issued the following statement May 8 regarding the election of Pope Leo XIV as the Supreme Pontiff ...

Chicago-born Robert Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He said “Peace be with you” in his first words as pope, offering a message of peace and dialogue “without fear.” ...

It is the quickest papal election in a century, beating the conclave of 2005, when Joseph Ratzinger claimed the title in less ...

After the white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel and the world learned that Pope Leo XIV would lead the church, Catholics ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost on Thursday became the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church.

The bells of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church rang out around 1:30 p.m. Thursday in celebration of Catholicism’s new leader – ...

President Donald Trump said the selection of Cardinal Robert F. Prevost to be pope is "a great honor" for the U.S., noting he ...