When Robert Francis Prevost spoke in Spanish to his crowd of supporters for the first time in St. Peter’s Square last week, ...

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As a Chicagoan who teaches at Villanova University, it was surreal for me to watch the election of Cardinal Robert Francis ...

The contrast with Leo’s predecessor is striking. Pope Francis collaborated closely with Argentine Jews during his years as a ...

Pope Leo XIV was yesterday elected as the first American Pope in the history of the Catholic Church - but his nationality has ...

Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago as Robert Prevost, was the first American to be elected Pope - but an expert has warned ...

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

INFOWeather1 Source: Own work License: CC BY-SA 4.0 Historical patterns in papal conclaves reveal how unexpected choices—like ...

Raised in Chicago, formed as a bishop in Peru, and forged by St. Augustine’s witness, Leo XIV begins his papacy with a quiet ...

Pope Leo XIV is seen as a centrist who shares his predecessor's progressive views on certain social issues. Here's what we ...

We want to be a synodal church. A church that walks, a church that always seeks peace, that always seeks charity, that always ...

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