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

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is a Villanova graduate. He is the first American pope elected in the 2,000-year ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

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

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

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

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost attended the Catholic Theological Union from 1977 until 1982, when he graduated with a master ...

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Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the ... one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. On ...

One Erie bishop met the new pope almost a decade ago in Rome. Another bishop with local ties is going to Pope Leo XIV's ...

As Pope Leo XIV stepped out in front of cheering crowds outside of St. Peter’s Basilica to give his first speech as head of ...