Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history ...

As the first American pope takes the helm, we revisit an open letter published in 1978 by peace activist Blase A. Bonpane to ...

In the days following Robert Prevost’s election as Pope Leo XIV, the world sought to understand this relatively unknown man.

But beyond the celeb connections, Gates’ research uncovered something far more powerful: Pope Leo XIV is of mixed Black and ...

Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost didn’t exactly keep quiet about his views. As far back as 2015, he was resharing op-eds criticizing Donald Trump ’s immigration ...

From priest to pope—will his missionary past define him as the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics, or will Pope Leo become ...

That approach should please much of his flock. New polling commissioned by The Economist suggests that Catholics are more ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo the XIV, ... There had long been a taboo against a U.S. pope, given the geopolitical power already wielded by the United States in the secular sphere.

French cardinal proto-deacon Dominique Mamberti announces the name of the new pope at the St Peter's Basilica. [Tiziana Fabi, AFP] Robert Francis Prevost, the first pope from the United States ...

It was about the time that the fake video started circulating about the woman purporting to recount the “situationship” she’d had with Robert Prevost, the new American pope, decades ago when ...

When the United States became the United States in 1776, it rejected King George III, the crown’s taxes and the ornate accoutrements and sensibilities that surrounded royalty.