Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost has spent much of his time serving in Peru. He was elected the first American pope from ...

Catholics and non-Catholics alike were abuzz with excitement in Chicago May 8, after one of the city’s native sons became ...

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

Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV calls for global peace and references conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza during his first Sunday ...

Cardinal Robert F. Prevost becomes Pope Leo XIV, the first North American elected pope, continuing Pope Francis' legacy of ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year ...

Pope Leo XIV delivered his first Sunday noon blessing from the loggia at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, three days after the 69-year-old Chicago-born missionary made history ...

After multiple votes over two days, Cardinal Robert Prevost, who was raised in Chicago, has been elected as the first-ever ...

People in Chicago are overjoyed and proud to hear that the newly elected Pope Leo XIV hails from their own city.

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was named Thursday as the first ever American pope – and folks in the Windy City are having a blast over it. “From now on, all communion wafers shall be ...

Never in the history of the Roman Catholic Church has there been an American pope, until now. Cardinal Robert Prevost is originally from Chicago, and served as the head of the church's Dicastery ...

Pope Leo XIV's journey from Chicago to Chiclayo, Peru, and finally to the Vatican will be chronicled in a new book by ...