Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected Thursday by the conclave to serve as pope, becoming Pope Leo XIV at the age ...

CHICLAYO, Peru — The people of northern Peru call him el obispo. Sometimes he is also Padre Prevost . Maybe when the shock ...

Pope Leo XIV’s American and Peruvian experience offers a compelling moral and economic lens through which to examine the ...

The small city of Chiclayo in northern Peru was bustling with excitement on Friday, with businesses and locals sharing photos ...

Peruvians are elated after a Catholic cardinal who spent years guiding the faithful in the South American country was elected ...

New pope's deliberate decision to identify with Peru in particular and the Global South generally is no accident ...

The celebration vibrated with joy following the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost Martínez — both a U.S. and ...

when he was bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, offered a special prayer of consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary before the pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fátima, whose feast day the Catholic Church ...

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

Pope Leo XIV spoke in Italian and then switched to Spanish, recalling his many years spent as a missionary and then ...

In Peru, Pope Leo XIV is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded the region, ...