"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 ...

I am a Peruvian who embraced America, and the pope is an American who embraced Peru.

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Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

"The other countries in the world can suck it. Because the Pope's American!" Bill Maher says on HBO's "Real Time" ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, ...

Pope Leo XIV is registered to vote in the United States and has previously voted in some Republican primaries, but he is not ...

The pope also has a more direct role on everyday Americans, in the sense that he is the head of a church followed by 20 ...

He now leads a sovereign nation, Vatican City, and the U.S. State Department says that for an American to retain citizenship ...