Leo’s ascent occurred with remarkable speed. Just over two years ago, he’d been one of the church’s 5,400 bishops — a role with no global visibility.

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until ...

With a culture as rich as Peru’s, you can see it, and you can hear it. So when the world started learning more about the new pope, they thought he was just a cardinal from Chicago.

Between 2015 and 2023, then-Bishop Robert F. Prevost shepherded the Diocese of Chiclayo through some of its most difficult ...

In his first formal audience, Pope Leo XIV made clear a commitment to making the Catholic Church more inclusive and attentive ...

The morning after John Prevost watched his younger brother Robert become Pope Leo XIV, he received a familiar phone call.

Chicago native Robert Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV. Prevost had been a long shot to people keeping track of the conclave, but ...

Leo, born in Chicago, Illinois in 1955, became a novitiate in the Order of Saint Augustine at 22 years old after graduating ...

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

Pope Leo XIV has been with Augustinian order almost since childhood, wanted to be one of their priests since he was 13 ...

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...

“The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church elected Robert Francis Prevost as their 267th pontiff on Thursday, ending a ...