Chicago Cardinal says when Pope Leo XIV is ready to travel to the United States, he will push for a Chicago stop.

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

The Rev. Andy Matijevic has some impressive bragging rights. “I told the future pope what to do,” Matijevic quipped. It was ...

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

In his first appearance as Pope Leo XIV on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, the man born Robert Francis Prevost spoke for ...

Augustinian Sister Marlene Quispe of the Monastery of the Incarnation in Lima, Peru, said that as their religious brother, ...

The people of northern Peru call him el obispo. Sometimes he's Padre Prevost. Maybe when the shock wears off, they'll get ...

Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the first pope from the United States. But in Peru, he is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, has been the topic of sports rumors since he was appointed, due to his Chicago roots, as he is a known White Sox fan.

Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.

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 ...