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

Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, has spent much of his ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

The first American pope succeeds Francis, preaching peace while confronting Church divides and urgent global crises.