Robert Prevost has been elected the first North American leader of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Leo XIV, in a ...

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His words, delivered fromzthe balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, signaled a papacy rooted in dialogue ... shift in the church’s global outlook. Prevost’s alignment with Pope Francis’s ...

Louis Prevost believes that his mom thought young Robert would go high up in the church, but he’s not so sure if the papacy ...

The contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark, politically, personally or ...

The contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark — politically, personally or ...

Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago and raised in Dolton, has been selected to lead the Catholic Church as the 267th pope. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV and becomes the first pope from the ...

“It’s really a different set of cards that the conclave has given to the papacy.” Prevost, who most recently ... “You got someone who has a global outlook who’s rooted in the American ...

Louis Prevost believes that his mom thought young Robert would go high up in the church, but he’s not so sure if the papacy ever crossed ... Now, the outlook is murkier as Pope Leo XIV ...