On Thursday afternoon -- running with a claim by an ABC News reporter -- the Chicago Cubs boasted that Pope Leo XIV was a fan ...

Robert Francis Prevost attended the Catholic Theological Union from 1977 until 1982, when he graduated with a master's of ...

Pope Leo XIV's first Latin Mass with the College of Cardinals will start on Friday, May 9, 2025 at 11:00 local time (2 p.m.

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chape l and St. Peter's bells chimed around 6 p.m. local time in Rome on May 8, ...

The 69-year-old will become Leo XIV as he succeeds the late Pope Francis, who brought the Peruvian-American to the Vatican ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, taking the name Pope Leo XIV.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago and earned a degree from Villanova University, but spent 20 years as a missionary and then a bishop in Peru.

The first American pope succeeds Francis, preaching peace while confronting Church divides and urgent global crises.

In his first speech as Pope Leo XIV remembered Pope Francis warmly. "We still hear in our ears the weak but always courageous ...

Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old cardinal from Chicago, was elected on Thursday as the new pope - the first American ever to ...

Catholics across the U.S. are celebrating the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first-ever American-born pope. The 69-year-old ...