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The revelation that Leo XIV has roots among New Orleans Creoles has stirred curiosity and joy about the first pope from the ...
The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S.
Tens of thousands of faithful Catholics gathered in St. Peter’s Square to watch Pope Leo XIV deliver the first Sunday ...
At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.
In Peru, Pope Leo XIV is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded the region, ...
"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.
Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...
The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.
Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...
The world has a new pope, and for the first time ever, he is from the United States. While the relationship between the new ...