Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago but spent two decades as a missionary in Peru, said a few words in English before ...

He is a person that has a world view that is global and that’s really what the church needs,” said Father Kevin Storey, with ...

"The pope is Peruvian; God loves Peru," she said. Follow our live updates Pope Leo XIV marks new beginning for Catholic Church Continuity the key for Pope seen as unifier in the Church Who is the ...

a missionary who dedicated his career to ministry in Peru and led the Vatican's powerful bishops' office, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney in Vatican City Thursday as the world gathered to watch a new pope take ...

"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

FROM a budding maths genius in the US to an adventurous missionary in Peru – horse riding Pope Leo XIV has now reached the ...

I’ve been a missionary my whole life and I was working in Peru, but I am American and I think I do have some insights into the [Catholic] Church in the United States,” he said. “The need to ...

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong also wrote to the new pope to congratulate him.