Rome (CNN) — Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost – now known as Pope Leo XIV — is the first pope from the United States. CNN — Rome (CNN) — Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost – now known as Pope Leo XIV — is ...

Robert Francis Prevost, a Villanova University graduate and a Chicago native, was chosen as the first American pope in history to lead the Catholic church as Pope Leo XIV. Prevost graduated from ...

Christoph Sator, Robert Messer and Martina Herzog, dpa May 8, 2025 May 8, 2025 ROME — The Catholic Church has a new pope: Chicago Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected Thursday as the new head ...

The morning after John Prevost watched his younger brother Robert become Pope Leo XIV, he received a familiar phone call. The new pope — who calls John every day — was well aware of the global ...

SOAVE, Italy — The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a group of students at an international Catholic school in Rome.

ROME — Three hours after Pope Leo XIV was elected the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church, his friend Lisa Solava emailed him from her home in southwest suburban New Lenox, where she and her husband, ...

Born on September 14, 1955, in Chicago, Illinois, Pope Leo (née Robert Francis Prevost) is the first Augustinian and second pope from the Americas. He grew up in the suburbs of Chicago’s south side ...

On May 7, Robert Francis Prevost entered the Sistine Chapel as a dark-horse cardinal from Chicago. A day later, after securing the votes of at least 89 out of his 132 peers, he appeared on the balcony ...

The new pope has been chosen. In the first vote of the afternoon on the second day of the conclave at around 6 pm, white smoke billowed out of the Vatican chimney to thunderous applause, signalling ...

In his first appearance as Pope Leo XIV on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, the man born Robert Francis Prevost spoke for 10 minutes in Italian. Then he transitioned to Spanish and, with a big ...

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Pope Leo XIV was born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago but has become a global figure and spent most of his career in Peru and Rome. 10 Tampa Bay’s Adaure Achumba spoke to a ...