Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected Thursday by the conclave to serve as pope, becoming Pope Leo XIV at the age of 69. Prevost, a missionary who dedicated his career to ministry in Peru ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

The morning after John Prevost watched his younger brother Robert become Pope Leo XIV, he received a familiar phone call.

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

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

I was very taken by his friendly nature, but also by his awareness of the dynamics of the church,” Bishop Michael Martin said about American Cardinal Robert Prevost.

The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the threats to Peru’s northern forests, a part of the ...