Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago, is the new pope and has taken the name Leo XIV. He is the first elected pope from the United States. “This is the first greetings of the ...

Robert Francis Prevost was on Thursday elected the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced. A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru ...

Francis embarked on a 12-year project to rein in the traditionalists in the United States, which is terrifically important to the global church financially. Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected as the pope of the Catholic Church, taking the name Leo XIV. Beginning on Wednesday, 133 cardinals gathered to select the new ...