He will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s ...

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield released a statement expressing profound joy and deep gratitude to ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, known for his pastoral work in Peru, has been elected as pope. His close ties with the country are ...

By Alek Buttermann The election of US Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, as the new head of the Catholic ...

As a missionary and bishop in Peru, the future Pope Leo came face-to-face with one of the most serious and far-reaching ...

Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old cardinal from Chicago, was elected Thursday as the new pope -- the first American ever to ...

Today history was made in the Catholic Church as white smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling a new ...

The Chicago native is also a Peruvian citizen and lived for years in Peru, first as a missionary and then as an archbishop.

Would those ties be too close or ... conclave.The bells of the cathedral in Peru's capital of Lima and at Holy Name Cathedral in downtown Chicago tolled after Prevost's election was announced.

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 ...

The College of Cardinals elected American Cardinal Robert Prevost as pope on Thursday in ... including assignments in St. Louis, Chicago, Peru, and most recently, Rome. On Thursday, Archbishop ...