New pontiff Robert Francis Prevost embraces a long Catholic tradition of standing with laborers by picking Leo as his name | ...

Not long after the white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney in Vatican City and news broke that Robert Prevost ...

The former Cardinal Prevost emerged on May 8 from a papal conclave as the 267th head of the Catholic church, Pope Leo XIV. He is the first U.S.-born pope, first with Peruvian citizenship and first ...

Before he was pope, he was a math major at a Catholic liberal arts university in Pennsylvania. Pope Leo XIV is the 267th head ...

He was born at Mercy Hospital in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, making him the first American to ever be elected by the ...

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...

Though Leo XIV is from Chicago, his election to the papacy reflects the move of Christianity toward the Global South.

When news broke that the first American Pope in Roman Catholic history was named in Rome, it caused a bevy of reactions ...

Church bells rang out for hours in celebration at Villanova University in suburban Philadelphia after one of their graduates ...

Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, graduated from Villanova in 1977 with a degree in mathematics. “What a proud and ...

F ather Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago ...