Father Robert Prevost first arrived in Peru in 1985 during a time of crisis, the aftermath of devastating El Niño rains that ...

Philadelphia woman confirmed by Pope Leo XIV in Peru says she prays for pontiff daily 02:01. As the world looks to the future ...

Robert Francis Prevost – now Pope Leo XIV – is the first American elected to lead 1.4 billion Catholics around the world. He ...

New pope's deliberate decision to identify with Peru in particular and the Global South generally is no accident ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

The new pope’s status as an American shocked me, and I immediately began to consider the politics and symbolism of the choice.

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

Robert Prevost, an missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops ...

The Chicago-born pontiff is the first American to lead the Catholic Church, and while his positions on some of the church’s ...

who met Pope Leo XIV while she worked for the church's Caritas nonprofit in Peru. He first sent him to Chiclayo in 2014, then brought him to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago will succeed Pope Francis as the leader of the Catholic Church. Prevost, the first ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S.