He will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s ...

As a missionary and bishop in Peru, the future Pope Leo came face-to-face with one of the most serious and far-reaching ...

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield released a statement expressing profound joy and deep gratitude to ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, known for his pastoral work in Peru, has been elected as pope. His close ties with the country are ...

In Louisiana, a state with strong ties to Catholicism, here's how officials and local dioceses reacted to the news of their ...

Census records for Leo's maternal grandparents hint at the complexity of Creole identity and of Black identity in America.

Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old cardinal from Chicago, was elected Thursday as the new pope -- the first American ever to ...

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

The Chicago native is also a Peruvian citizen and lived for years in Peru, first as a missionary and then as an archbishop.

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with interfaith environmental networks and Indigenous organizations to place forest prot ...

Would those ties be too close or ... conclave.The bells of the cathedral in Peru's capital of Lima and at Holy Name Cathedral in downtown Chicago tolled after Prevost's election was announced.