US Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost Martínez was elected Thursday as the new head of the Catholic Church to succeed the Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis). The new pontiff chose to be ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the new pope, set to succeed the late Pope Francis and mark the first time an American has served as pope. He took the name Leo XIV and emerged from ...

Vatican II renewal and an Augustinian spirituality of communion, a young Fr. Robert Prevost learned how to construct the ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States was selected ...

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that the 133 cardinals working inside had reached a two-thirds ...

It is typically absurd to think of an American as pope. But in this conclave, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who has spent much of his life outside of the United States is worthy of serious ...

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 United ...

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected as the new pope on Thursday and will take the Leo XIV title. Soon after, the 69-year-old was declared the Vatican's chief, his old social media posts ...

As newly elected Pope Leo XIV — a native son of Chicago — made his first appearance on the loggia at St. Peter’s Basilica, Cardinal Blase Cupich looked on from an adjacent balcony, keenly aware of the ...

Pope Leo XIV said, “Peace be with you” in his first words as pope, offering a message of peace and dialogue “without fear.” Watch his full address in the video player above. From the loggia of St.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, whose papal name will be Pope Leo XIV, will make history as the first American pope Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Robert Prevost, the choice of the world’s Catholic cardinals to serve as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Church, is the first pope from the United States and a relative unknown on the global stage.