Between class periods at Turlock’s Sacred Heart School on Thursday, the news that white smoke could be seen coming from the ...

Pope Leo XIV has been with Augustinian order almost since childhood, wanted to be one of their priests since he was 13 ...

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with interfaith environmental networks and Indigenous organizations to place forest prot ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of St. Peter's Basilica ...

“The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church elected Robert Francis Prevost as their 267th pontiff on Thursday, ending a ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful ...

Pope Leo XIV was elected after only two days in conclave. He was born in the U.S. and is also a citizen of Peru.

When Villanova University’s president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope wasn’t far away on campus, studying math ...

Scrutiny about the way the latest pope might run the Catholic Church started the moment he stepped on to the balcony.

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich participated in the conclave that elected Robert Prevost to lead the Catholic Church as pope.

When Pope Leo XIV was elected as the late Pope Francis’ successor, Harry Styles was one of the many in the crowd present for ...

Pope Leo XIV, now the successor of St. Peter, leads the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church in a sacred role that few others ...