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

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

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost has spent much of his time serving in Peru. He was elected the first American pope from ...

The 69-year-old will become Leo XIV as he succeeds the late Pope Francis, who brought the Peruvian-American to the Vatican ...

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed ...

Robert Prevost’s Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south side suburbs, where he grew up playing “pretend priest” and ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

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

On day two of the conclave and after only four rounds of voting, Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected and will be known as ...

According to his Vatican biography, the cardinal was born in Chicago in September 1955. Local records detail that Robert Francis Prevost, like his older brothers, was born at Mercy Hospital at ...