Before the selection of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was announced, people offered their predictions on who would become ...

From the St. Peter’s Basilica to his native Chicago to his diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, Catholic faithful around the world ...

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The election of Pope Leo XIV as the first-American pontiff shocked the world, and Chicago residents rejoiced in the Holy ...

Bishop Timothy Senior and staff with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg were gathered on Thursday afternoon in a ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful office of bishops ...

A new pope has officially been elected as white smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St ...

Asked whether it was unexpected for an American to be elected, Father Reese said: “Oh yeah, shocking.” Robert Prevost, who ...

The new pope’s call for an end to “prejudice, resentment, fanaticism and even hatred” seems tailor-made to MAGA’s media ...

To discuss the implications of Robert Prevost’s election as pope, for both the church and for the world’s 1.4 billion ...