As a Chicagoan who teaches at Villanova University, it was surreal for me to watch the election of Cardinal Robert Francis ...

Amid the mostly joyous reception for Robert Prevost, who stunned the world when he emerged from the loggia of St. Peter’s as ...

Lisa and Rich Solava and Denise Utter were friends with Robert Prevost long before he became pope — and have the selfies to ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago, has been elected Pope Leo XIV, making history as the first American to lead ...

A special mass at St. John the Evangelist honored Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago and has deep ties to Latin America.

When the white smoke poured out of St. Peter's Basilica last week, 73-year-old Port Charlotte resident Louis Prevost learned ...

Experts see the new pontiff as less confrontational than his predecessor, but willing to stand up for the church's teachings.

Cardinal Robert F. Prevost becomes Pope Leo XIV, the first North American elected pope, continuing Pope Francis' legacy of ...

Bishop Edinson Farfán of Chiclayo, Peru, is publicly defending the actions of his predecessor, now Pope Leo XIV, in the face ...

Father Robert Prevost first arrived in Peru in 1985 during a time of crisis, the aftermath of devastating El Niño rains that ...

The world was stunned last week when white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel, signaling the election of a new pope. But what ...

White smoke poured out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican in Rome on Thursday, announcing that a new pope had been chosen. Robert Prevost, an American Cardinal from the Chicago region ...