Advocates for victims of sex abuse say there needs to be an accounting of how then-Cardinal Robert Prevost handled such cases ...

With the arrival of Pope Leo XIV, much of the media has emphasized the mystery of the papal conclave, focusing on cryptic ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost's rise to the papacy this week drew favorable responses from Catholics bishops who have long expressed support for migrant communities in Texas border towns. While Pope ...

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.

On Thursday afternoon, the Rev. Thomas L. Gillespie of St. Patrick Church of St. Oscar Romero Parish and staff members were ...

Pope Leo XIV, or Papa León 14, has been selected to lead the Catholic Church and its 1.4 billion congregation worldwide.

My phone was blowing up when that white smoke was coming out,” Tom Harrington said. “My phone was blowing up saying, ‘hey, your guy is the Pope’. I was so proud I started crying, because it’s very ...

Prevost, a U.S. native and naturalized citizen of Peru, spent his childhood growing up in Chicago. Here's what we know about his family.

Robert Francis Prevost, who became the first pope from the United States and took the name Leo XIV, has always been a ...

Francis, the first Latin American pope, clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw him as his heir apparent.

Prevost benefited from being the “least American” of the U.S. cardinals, from being an acolyte of Pope Francis’ but not a ...