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

People in the city of Chiclayo, where Leo XIV served as bishop for about eight years, gathered to celebrate a man they see as one of their own.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost made history on May 8, 2025, when he stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the ...

Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago as Robert Prevost, was the first American to be elected Pope - but an expert has warned ...

The surprising election of the first American pope felt fraught and disorienting to Roman Catholics around the world, who had ...

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

The new leader of the Catholic Church is American Robert Francis Prevost, Cardinal Dominique Mamberti announced to a crowd in ...

The original Pope Leo, known as “Leo the Great,” who served in the fifth century, left an equally powerful legacy. He is ...

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

Robert Francis Prevost will go by the papal name of Pope Leo XIV after he was elected to be 267th pope following the first ...

(RNS) — As a Chicago-born missionary to Peru, Robert Francis ... which reported on Leo’s Creole identity. “And of course we don’t know what happened to Pope Leo’s family, but what ...