Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected Pope Leo XIV, marking the first American to hold the position.

A Chicago area priest who asked not to be named said of Prevost: “What really bothers me about this new pope is that no matter what his theological background, just like other priests and ...

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is the first American pope in history. Here's his nationality, background, age and more.

Robert Prevost has been appointed as the 267th pope, taking the name Leo XIV. Born in Chicago, he becomes the first American ...

The parish became too expensive for the Chicago Archdiocese to maintain ... That might be because of his background. Prevost is unusually qualified to address the most pressing challenges of ...

Cardinal Prevost was elected pontiff on the second day of the conclave, becoming the leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.

Mount Carmel Elementary School in Chicago Heights, where his father was principal. Prevost, who attended ... But he stayed in the background because she was always doing things at the parish.” ...

here's what there is to know about Provost's nationality and background. Cardinal Robert Prevost, who is fluent in Spanish and Italian, was born and raised in the south suburbs of Chicago ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became the first American pope in the history of the Catholic church on Thursday.