On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pope, Leo XIV.

Prevost was brought to the Vatican in 2023 by Pope Francis as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations.

making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and conflict. Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost – a Chicago native who spent his career ministering to the poor in Peru – has been elected the 267 th pope, marking the first American pontiff in the Catholic Church ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a former prefect of the influential ... one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. On Thursday, he ascended to become Pope Leo XIV — the first ...

The Hyde Park school was founded in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, which shaped its teachings and philosophy toward religious education. It features courses in Catholic-Jewish studies and ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

The regnal name that Cardinal Robert Prevost chose, Leo XIV, has beautiful and powerful resonance for anyone familiar with the history of the Church.

Pope Leo XIV met Thursday with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory panel for the first time amid questions ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

A copy of the doctoral thesis of Fr Robert Prevost — elected this year as Pope Leo XIV — has been discovered in the rare ...

making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and conflict. Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious ...