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

On the second day of the conclave, white smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel, meaning a new pope has been elected.

Before ascending to lead the Roman Catholic ... Church, Leo spent his childhood in Chicago’s South Side, where his family was beloved. He later spent two decades carrying out missionary work in ...

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 ...

CHICLAYO, Peru — The people of northern ... of St. Peter’s Basilica for his first speech as the leader of the Catholic church. Ricardo Ulloque on Friday remembered Leo singing into a ...

Father Hugo Gabriel Sánchez of Chiclayo, Peru, had been planning a trip with ... as pope,” said the pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in the José Leonardo Ortíz district of Chiclayo.

Many people who worked with Pope Leo XIV when he was Bishop Robert Prevost of Chiclayo, Peru, couldn’t hold back tears when ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

Prevost would often say that he had "come from Chicago to Chiclayo – the only difference ... and in canon law in Rome, the Catholic Church sent him to Peru for the first time.

Prevost would often say that he had "come from Chicago to Chiclayo – the only difference is a ... studies in theology in Chicago and in canon law in Rome, the Catholic Church sent him to Peru for the ...