Over dinner, as one gluten-free cardinal picked over vegetables and others shrugged at the simple fare, they weighed their choices. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, 70, the Italian who ran the Vatican ...

VATICAN CITY—Cardinal Robert Prevost, seated beneath Michelangelo’s monumental fresco of the Last Judgement, buried his head in his hands as the sound of his name echoed off the walls of the ...

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki has candidly confessed he “didn’t expect” the election of Pope Leo XIV, praising the new pontiff’s “warmth and humanity” while expressing hope for ...

The cardinal electors of the Catholic Church elected an American on Thursday to serve as the new pope. Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the new pope, set to succeed the late Pope Francis and mark the first time an American has served as pope. He took the name Leo XIV and emerged ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, whose papal name will be Pope Leo XIV, will make history as the first American pope Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church A short time after white smoke billowed from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel on the afternoon of Thursday ...

Something about this rarely acknowledged but pervasive assumption may shift — silently but tectonically — when you stand in front of this painting at the Art Institute of Chicago by Joan Miró ...

With the start of the conclave May 7, there are five cardinal electors who bring a significant amount of experience to the process. Four electors — Cardinals Peter Turkson, Philippe Barbarin ...

In three posts, then-Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago was critical of Vance's take on religion, shared an article critiquing Vance's statements on deportation of migrants and retweeted ...

When the 69-year-old Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on May 8, 2025, appeared on the main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time as Pope Leo XIV, he was cheered loudly by the huge ...