Historic Election: Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago-born Peruvian citizen, was elected as the first American pope, taking ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost is elected Pope Leo XIV to become the first pope from the US. Read a recap of the events of May 8.

Cardinal Prevost was elected pontiff on the second day of the conclave, becoming the leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...

I am a Peruvian who embraced America, and the pope is an American who embraced Peru.

Prevost is a 69-year-old missionary who spent much of his career ministering in Peru and currently leads the Vatican’s influential office of bishops.

To discuss the implications of Robert Prevost’s election as pope, for both the church and for the world’s 1.4 billion ...

Just weeks before Leo, 69, emerged from the conclave as the first American to lead the Roman Catholic church, his brother Louis Prevost appeared ... persons that is in reaction” to the president ...

Robert Prevost was brought to the Vaticanby Pope Francis as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, one ...

In a historic and unpredictable moment, white smoke billowed out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, as the first pope from the United States of America was unveiled.