Father Tony Banks has known Bob Prevost for 44 years – including four trips to Australia – and thinks his friend will “take a ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Mass on Friday after his historic election as the first North American pope, meeting with ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

A Vatican spokesman confirmed the choice was a reference to Leo XIII, who was the head of the Church from 1878 and 1903.