In his first official appointment, Pope Leo named a woman to head a major Vatican office. Sister Simona Brambilla is now the ...

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

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost – now known as Pope Leo XIV — is the first pope from the United States. The 69-year-old from ...

Prevost, 69, is a Chicago native and a Villanova graduate. He said his chosen papal name would be Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIV has been elected following roughly 24 hours of deliberation among the 133-member College of Cardinals, the Vatican announced on Thursday.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St.

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic ...

The Reverend James Bretzke, a theology professor at John Carroll University in Ohio, told USA Today this week that a diplomat ...

For the first time, there's a US pope. Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost, is from Chicago and is a citizen of Peru. Here's what you need to know.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been named the first American pope, selected Thursday by 133 cardinals from across the globe on the second day of the papal conclave in Rome. The new pontiff, who ...

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.

Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s office of bishops.