Survivor groups call election 'an insult', cite past inaction and failed oversight; Vatican maintains no wrongdoing.

Pope Leo XIV salary has become a trending topic after Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected the first American pope.

In his first formal audience on Saturday, Leo made clear he will follow in the modernizing reforms of his predecessor, Pope Francis, to make the Catholic Church inclusive, attentive to the faithful, ...

Thursday's news may have come as a surprise even to those who devotedly follow Catholic Church politics: Pope Francis elevated the Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, 69, to ...

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

Seeing then Robert Cardinal Prevost in deep thought and appearing anxious upon realizing he was to be elected pope, his ...

Pope Leo XIV came out May 8, 2025 to the balcony of the Sistine Chapel wearing the traditional garb for a new pope, a red ...

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior cardinal deacon announced. The 69-year-old Chicago native is the first ...

I almost passed out twice – twice – because to be living next to the pope, that’s real serious,” Kareem Davis told WBBM ...

With this one simple Latin word – literally, I accept — Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, Chicago native, a priest of the religious order known as the Augustinians, missionary to Peru, Cardinal of the ...

The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church's 267th pope had special meaning for a ...