Despite being the first pope from America, a country where the Catholic Church is known for its relative conservatism, Pope ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church ...

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

The selection of Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, means there will be no turning back from the direction charted by Pope Francis, who made Prevost a cardinal in 2023.

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

He had the good papal housekeeping seal of approval from Pope Francis, his predecessor, who put him in one of the top jobs in ...

When 69-year-old Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost appeared on the main ... In his first remarks from the balcony, offering a ...

Francis may have been globally admired, but within the church hierarchy he was a polarizing figure. This could have resulted ...

All signs point to the newly elected pontiff’s continuing in much the same vein as his predecessor, but with a more moderate ...

Some of the cardinals who elected him said his life of service to the poor in Peru and to the church at the Vatican mattered ...