Robert Prevost has been elected the first North American leader of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Leo XIV, in a ...

Pope Leo XIV held his first meeting with cardinals since his May 8 election and offered a glimpse into his vision for the ...

The contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark, politically, personally or ...

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The contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark — politically, personally or ...

His words, delivered fromzthe balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, signaled a papacy rooted in dialogue ... shift in the church’s global outlook. Prevost’s alignment with Pope Francis’s ...

Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago and raised in Dolton, has been selected to lead the Catholic Church as the 267th pope. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV and becomes the first pope from the ...

“It’s really a different set of cards that the conclave has given to the papacy.” Prevost, who most recently ... “You got someone who has a global outlook who’s rooted in the American ...

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But “I can now say it,” John Prevost, one of two brothers of Pope ... felt he was downsizing the prominence and history of the papacy. Fans adored it, seeing instead modesty and humility.