When Pope Leo XIV surprised tens of thousands of young people at a recent Holy Year celebration with an impromptu popemobile ...

In the Footsteps of Pope Leo XIV,' a $150M faith-tourism route links 35 sites that celebrate nation’s first Peruvian pope ...

The press conference, with its serious translation errors, indicated the difficulties Ana María Quispe Díaz has faced as her story is scrutinized on an international stage — and the challenge for the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the first pope from the United States. But in Peru, he is known as the saintly m ...

A Chicago native, Prevost, 69, had extensive experience in Peru, first as a missionary and then an archbishop, and he is prefect of the Vatican’s powerful dicastery for bishops, in charge of ...

Father Robert Prevost first arrived in Peru in 1985 during a time of crisis, the aftermath of devastating El Niño rains that had left thousands of people homeless.

Prevost lived and worked in Peru for more than 20 years. First, as a missionary during the '80s, when Peru was fractured by internal violence.

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 probably had less to do ...

One Jesuit's encounter with a cop, a cat and several fellow Catholics in search of a connection to the first American pontiff.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in ...

This yearbook image from 1977 shows Robert Prevost during his time as a student at Villanova University. Prevost was elected to be the 267th pope on May 8, 2025 and took the name Pope Leo XIV.

Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, served the poor in Peru for 35 years, often driving a pickup truck to remote villages to deliver aid.