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Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the 267th pope, and the first United States citizen to become the bishop of Rome. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a shocking vote that caught the Catholic world ...

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 – now known as Pope Leo XIV — is the first pope from the United States. The 69-year-old from ...

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

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new pontiff has been chosen after the second or third ballots.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been named the first American pope, selected Thursday by 133 cardinals from across the globe on the second day of the papal conclave in Rome. The new pontiff, who ...

Robert Francis Prevost was introduced to the world as Pope Leo XIV. But as recently as last week, he was a low-profile cardinal just dining out with a friend in Rome. The friend, the Rev. Art ...

Robert Prevost’s Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south suburbs, where he lived in Dolton and attended St. Mary’s parish before becoming Pope Leo XIV.

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

Former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States ... and he traveled to the Augustinian College of Saint Monica in Rome to be ordained. Prevost later received a doctorate in canon ...