A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope.

After Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.

Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, has participated in seven separate contests since 2012, including three Republican primaries.

"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

Political figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election ...

In the Peruvian city of Chiclayo, just a few kilometers from the Pacific Ocean, nearly everyone knows Pope Leo XIV.

Born in the Windy City in 1955 to parents of Spanish and Franco-Italian descent, Prevost served as an altar boy and was ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel where he was elected less than 24 hours earlier, warning of the ...

Prelates who voted in the conclave played down the new pope’s American roots. In his first Mass as pontiff, Leo pledged to ...

The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.

Pope Leo XIV, American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has addressed thousands of people gathered in Vatican Square for ...