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

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

Latest news and live updates as the election process for the next pope continues. The cardinals met for their first conclave ...

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

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.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ... out many of his progressive reforms designed to modernize the Catholic church. Among Prevost’s more controversial moves with Francis was adding women to ...

Catholics across the region celebrated the historic announcement Thursday that the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the church ... 69-year-old Robert Francis Prevost proclaimed ...

Those were the first words of Pope Leo XIV, the newly anointed leader of the Catholic Church. As Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost addressed the ecstatic crowd gathered in St. Peter’s square ...

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 took the name Pope Leo XIV. Pope Leo XIV ...