Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...

Leo’s commitments present a challenge to the nationalism and isolationism currently promoted by the White House.

Though Leo XIV is from Chicago, his election to the papacy reflects the move of Christianity toward the Global South.

While he was born in Chicago, his pastoral identity was shaped in the highlands of Peru, not the pews of Illinois.' ...

COMMENTARY: Pope Leo XIV is the first true missionary to lead the Catholic Church since Christ chose St. Peter.

The U.S.-born pontiff served in Peru for decades, and Arizonans from the South American country think he was shaped for the ...

New pope's deliberate decision to identify with Peru in particular and the Global South generally is no accident ...

Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual ...

In the end, the most fundamental part of Leo’s identity may not be either his American or his Peruvian nationality, argued ...

In 2025, Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago, emerged as the first American Pope after a swift two-day ...

Pope Leo is seen as a centrist who shares his predecessor's progressive views on certain social issues. Here's what we know ...