With deep ties to both the United States and Peru, Pope Leo steps into spiritual leadership of 1.4 billion Catholics, ...

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

Pope Leo XIV spent two decades ministering in Peru. He became part of Peruvian society and, eventually, a leader within it.

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.' ...

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 ...

Japanese Cardinal Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo says Pope Leo XIV’s previous work as a missionary and as a Vatican official were ...

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 ...

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