Habemus papam — and he’s American! Cardinal Robert Frances Prevost is the first American to be selected pope in the history of the 2,000-year-old church. The 69-year-old took the name Pope Leo XIV.

Today, we know a lot more about Cardinal Robert Prevost turned Pope Leo XIV. A year after his first words to the world were ...

"Peace be with all of you!" Those were the first words of Pope Leo XIV, the newly anointed leader of the Catholic Church. As Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost addressed the ecstatic crowd gathered in St ...

The first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church was elected on Thursday. The Vatican announced Cardinal Robert Prevost as the next pope. Milwaukee Catholics are celebrating Pope Leo XIV, ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic ...

As newly elected Pope Leo XIV — a native son of Chicago — made his first appearance on the loggia at St. Peter’s Basilica, Cardinal Blase Cupich looked on from an adjacent balcony, keenly aware of the ...

The newly elected Pope Leo XIV (R), the American Robert Prevost, appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican after the Papal Conclave. Oliver Weiken/dpa The Catholic Church has a new ...

VATICAN CITY, May 9 (Reuters) - As U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost realized during the secret conclave that he might be elected the next Catholic pope, he put his head in his hands at the daunting ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the new pope and the first U.S. leader of the Catholic Church worldwide, is already being hailed as a breath of fresh air by some. But the ancient religious order that he’s ...

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Cardinal Robert Prevost may be the first person from the U.S. to become the head of the Catholic Church but his surprising election by the world's cardinals as Pope Leo XIV ...