For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with interfaith environmental networks and Indigenous organizations to place forest ...

Ninety-year-old Sister Carmen Miravalles and 87-year-old Sister Mary of Good Counsel Villar met the pope in 1969 at St.

By then, Considine had become head of the U.S. bishops’ Latin America Bureau. He worked with the onetime Catholic priest and ...

After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

The Papal conclave has elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new leader of the Catholic Church. Here’s what we know ...

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

Fye The Catholic Messenger Leading up to the convocation to elect a new pope, Bishop Dennis Walsh thought ...Read More ...

W e’re all excited to see the election of our new Holy Father, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States, now Pope Leo XIV. I am having a great time in conversations, discuss ...

Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV, graduated with a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Villanova University in ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse amplified calls Tuesday for a global zero-tolerance policy from the new pope’s American hometown and raised questions about Leo XIV’s history of dealing ...

The Catholic Church has always been central to Creole identity. The Prevosts aren’t the only ones who passed into white identities in Chicago.

The Chicago White Sox unveiled a mural in honor of Pope Leo XIV in commemoration of his attendance at the 2005 World Series.