Cardinal Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, is the first U.S.-born pope in the Church's history. Here's how readers reacted to ...

The election of a new pope is “very exciting, and we are sending blessings and congratulations," Rabbi Marc Baker of the ...

Students at a Catholic elementary school in Dorchester not only witnessed the election of a new pope, but also got to learn<a ...

Robert F. Prevost, 69, was a longshot selection with extensive missionary experience in Peru and an approach similar to Pope ...

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until ...

Massachusetts and Boston Catholics are joining the faithful around the world in celebrating the election of the first American-born pope."Everyone was, you know, prognosticating. But we got a surprise ...

Robert Prevost of the U.S. is the new Catholic pontiff, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. The Chicago-born cardinal ministered in ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pope, clearly saw something in Prevost early on. He first sent him to Chiclayo ...

Massachusetts Catholics and political leaders took a moment to recognize new Pope Leo XIV after Cardinal Robert Prevost was ...

For American Catholics, the elevation of Robert Prevost to the papacy was a shock, a cause for celebration and a chance for ...

President Donald Trump reacted to the selection of the new pope and leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday.

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the ...