At this moment of change and possibility, four principles that Francis lived, and that Leo XIV has begun to echo, must guide ...

ThibodeauxROBERT Prevost broke a historical taboo against American popes with a path that was anything but typically American.Though the man now called Leo XIV is a Chicago native, he is known in Rome ...

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

As news broke that the papal conclave had elected American Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pope, cameras panned across a ...

Yet the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel chose Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native, as the 267th pope of the ...

Trump Celebrates the "Honor" of the First American Pontiff, But His Supporters Consider Him a Danger. The election of ...

Western Pennsylvania's religious leaders and Catholics are celebrating the election of a new pope. On Thursday, Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected to become the first American pope, taking the ...

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.

Robert Francis Prevost was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, becoming the first pope from the ...

White smoke poured from a chimney above the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, signaling that the 133 cardinals sequestered inside ...

Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV — has been elected, a mere 249 years after the founding of the nation.