The new pope, Robert Prevost, who has taken the name Leo XIV, just broke a longstanding taboo on having an American pope, after Prevost was brought to the Vatican by Pope Francis himself ...

Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago and raised in South Holland, has been selected to lead the Catholic Church as the 267th pope. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV and becomes the first pope ...

Places where Robert Francis Prevost may have spent childhood in, around Dolton is mostly now photographs and memories.

Robert Prevost's Catholic roots were planted in Chicago's south side suburbs, where he grew up playing "pretend priest" and embodies the spirit of a "second Pope Francis," his brother said.

Former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States was selected Thursday by the papal conclave to succeed Pope Francis and lead the Roman Catholic Church. The new pontiff, who has taken ...

Robert Francis Prevost first moved to Peru in 1985 as a missionary working in remote rural regions at a time when the country was plagued by violence fomented by the Shining Path, a Maoist ...

Long Islanders were surprised, but enthused, about the election of the first American pope, Robert Francis Prevost. Some Catholics saw Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, as a centrist and ...

Pope Francis' successor has been elected, and it's the first American pope. Here's what we know about Cardinal Robert Prevost.

VATICAN CITY — Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the ...

File: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost (C) is seen during a Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice Mass ahead of the Conclave, in which he and the other cardinal electors are called to elect a new Pope, at ...