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The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...
The morning after John Prevost watched his younger brother Robert become Pope Leo XIV, he received a familiar phone call.
Cardinal Robert Prevost becomes first U.S. pope, Pope Leo XIV, amid controversy and comparisons to predecessors.
Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...
Robert Prevost, who was promoted by Francis and has a knack for management and a zeal for missionary work, was a stronger ...
Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.
Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until ...
In the frenzied days leading up to the papal conclave following Pope Francis’s passing on April 21, speculation was rampant: ...
Though Leo XIV is from Chicago, his election to the papacy reflects the move of Christianity toward the Global South.
Prevost, the 267th leader of the church and the first American pope, is now Leo XIV. But back when he was skinny undergrad at Nova, he was just Robert. The Chicago native was in what the church calls ...
As the United States celebrates the Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost being selected as the next pope, Peru, where Pope ...
Leo’s ascent occurred with remarkable speed. Just over two years ago, he’d been one of the church’s 5,400 bishops — a role ...