Taking the name Leo XIV, the American was elected to be the 267th pontiff and spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion ...

Pope Francis' successor has been elected, and it's the first American pope. Here's what we know about Cardinal Robert Prevost ...

Pope Francis' successor has been elected, and it's the first American pope. Here's what we know about Cardinal Robert Prevost ...

Former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States was selected Thursday by the papal conclave to succeed Pope ...

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A U.S. bishop thought it was unlikely that Catholic cardinals would break with more than two centuries of precedent to pick a ...

Nuns celebrated after seeing white smoke. Jason Horowitz Motoko Rich and Elizabeth Dias Reporting from Vatican City Robert Francis Prevost was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church ...

Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago and raised in Dolton, has been selected to lead the Catholic Church as the 267th pope ...

The Catholic Church has entered a new historic era with the election of American-Peruvian Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago, has been elected to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, more than two weeks after the death of Pope Francis. The 69-year-old was ...

In his first words as Pope Leo XIV, 69-year-old Robert Francis Prevost proclaimed “Peace be with you,” invoking a message of dialogue, unity and care for those in need from Vatican City.

Today history was made in the Catholic Church as white smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling a new ...