Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...

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 ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope on May 8 — the first American in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. The 69-year-old took the name Pope Leo XIV. Leo XIV has spent years ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — The Cardinal's selection of Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American, as the 267th Pope of the Catholic church, following just two days and four votes made history. He chose the ...

Pope Leo XIV leads a mass after during his inauguration at St. Peter's Square. Robert Francis Prevost is the first pontiff from the United States. Oliver Weiken/dpa Pope Leo XIV called for greater ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — After two days of conclave and only four votes, the cardinals selected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the Catholic church's next pope. He took the name Pope Leo XIV. After weeks of ...

CHICAGO – At St. Mary of the Assumption school in Chicago’s southern suburbs, Robert Prevost was quiet, kind and studious. Mostly, he wanted to be a priest. It was the 1960s, and the parish school was ...

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 ...

John Prevost reflects on the years after his brother left home, from his brother Robert's time in the minor seminary and ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the ...

The Issue: The election of American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the next pope of the Catholic Church. We now have an American pope in Robert Francis Prevost (“Chicago pope,” May 9). Prevost ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a ...