Cardinal Robert Prevost becomes first U.S. pope, Pope Leo XIV, amid controversy and comparisons to predecessors.

The morning after John Prevost watched his younger brother Robert become Pope Leo XIV, he received a familiar phone call.

Leo’s ascent occurred with remarkable speed. Just over two years ago, he’d been one of the church’s 5,400 bishops — a role with no global visibility.

Pope Leo XIV will give his first Sunday noon blessing since being elected as the first U.S.-born pope in the Catholic ...

IN OUR HOME TOWN OF MORATUWA PEOPLE ALWAYS CALLED HIM CAPTAIN HE FLEW SPITFIRES AND DAKOTAS IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF AVIATION I ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, has this in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy: He’s been in positions of ...

Walsh, left, and community leader Theresa Mahoney, are seen here with a Time magazine cover shot of Pope Leo XIV, who has a connection with the Ursulines from his days serving in Peru. They are in ...

POPE LEO XIV played at being a priest as a child and used the family’s ironing board as an altar, his brother has revealed.

Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical ...

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

Robert Francis Prevost, a Villanova University graduate and a Chicago native, was chosen as the first American pope in ...

Pope Leo XIV has been with Augustinian order almost since childhood, wanted to be one of their priests since he was 13 ...