Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic ...

On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

A U.S. bishop thought it was unlikely that Catholic cardinals would break with more than two centuries of precedent to pick a ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American, has been selected as the new pope and taken the name Leo XIV. White smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday after Prevost secured at least 89 ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost – a Chicago native who spent his career ministering to the poor in Peru – has been elected the 267 th pope, marking the first American pontiff in the Catholic Church ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the ...

Pope Leo XIV has been elected following roughly 24 hours of deliberation among the 133-member College of Cardinals, the Vatican announced on Thursday.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a shocking vote that caught the Catholic world by surprise, Robert ... as Prevost may have been anticipated. Prevost himself spoke of the divisions in the church in ...

Habemus papam!” Those words echoed to the faithful around the world, including those waiting outside St. Peter’s Basilica as jubilous cheers erupted from the crowd. “We have a pope!” In his first ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a former prefect of the influential ... one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. On Thursday, he ascended to become Pope Leo XIV — the first ...