Bishop John Keehner sent out a statement regarding the selection of Pope Leo XIV, the first American to ever become Pope.

The world's 1.4 billion Catholics now have a new pope. Robert Prevost, who was born in Chicago and spent two decades of ...

Faith leaders across the world, including here in Cincinnati, are celebrating the election of a new pope. Robert Prevost, a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

A new Pope has been selected, and with the selection comes a major historic moment that excited local members of the Catholic ...

Pope Francis’s 69-year-old successor is the first in the 2,000-year history of the Roman Catholic Church to be born in the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

It is with great joy that I welcome the election of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV,” Michael Warsaw said in a statement.

Pope Leo was announced as Pope Francis’ successor on May 8, 2025, becoming the first American pontiff in Vatican history.

The path of Robert Prevost from his birth in Chicago in 1955 to his elevation as the first American pope, Leo XIV, in Rome on ...

The 69-year old, who holds citizenship in both the United States and Peru, will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Prevost served as ...