Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

The Vatican's veil of secrecy is beginning to lift, shedding light on how 133 cardinals from around he world unexpectedly ...

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Chicago-born Robert Prevost has spent much of his time serving in Peru, and was just elected the first American pope.

The BriefA new pope has been named following the death of former Pope Francis.Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo the Fourteenth, will deliver a short speech and a prayer before being inaugurated at ...

The conclave has elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American-born cleric, as the new popeNow the 267th pontiff, he ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected as the pope of the Catholic Church, taking the name Leo XIV.

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in history. Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV.

VATICAN CITY — Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful ...

For centuries, the world has turned its gaze to the Vatican whenever white smoke rises above the Sistine Chapel. That puff of ...

Habemus papam — and he’s from Chicago! Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope on Thursday — the first American in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. The 69-year-old ...