Many people who worked with Pope Leo XIV when he was Bishop Robert Prevost of Chiclayo, Peru, couldn’t hold back tears when ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected Thursday by the conclave to serve as pope, becoming Pope Leo XIV at the age ...

Peru's president, Dina Boluarte, described Pope Leo as Peruvian "by choice and conviction". "The pope is Peruvian; God loves ...

Peruvians are elated after a Catholic cardinal who spent years guiding the faithful in the South American country was elected ...

CHICLAYO, Peru — The people of northern Peru call him el obispo. Sometimes he is also Padre Prevost . Maybe when the shock ...

LIMA (Reuters) - In the Peruvian coastal city of Chiclayo, some 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) from new Pope Leo XIV's ...

How Leo confronts the lingering global crisis could be of particular interest to Catholics in the Philadelphia region.

After the historic election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as history’s first American pope, old allegations of coverup and ...

The new pope opposed letting women serve as deacons but endorsed some of his predecessor’s moves to expand their involvement.

The Augustinian cardinal and former missionary in Peru has been elected the new pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

The new head of the global Roman Catholic Church was born in Chicago, but spent decades in Peru. He first arrived in 1985 as a young missionary in the mostly impoverished north, spending many of his f ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.