The BriefCardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago elected pope Thursday, taking the name Pope Leo XIVHe is the first American-born ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...

Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.

On Thursday afternoon -- running with a claim by an ABC News reporter -- the Chicago Cubs boasted that Pope Leo XIV was a fan ...

Just days after making history as the first American Pope, Illinois native Pope Leo XIV is preparing for a reunion with his ...

I just didn’t think there would be an American pope in this geopolitical climate,” one respondent said. The post The new pope ...