Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meet Pope Leo XIV: The life and times of Robert Francis Prevost On 8 May 2025, the Catholic Church entered a historic new era with ...

"Peace be with all of you!" Those were the first words of Pope Leo XIV, the newly anointed leader of the Catholic Church. As Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost addressed the ecstatic crowd gathered in St ...

Pope Leo XIV was welcomed as the newest pontiff by a sea of faithful and an uninterrupted view of St. Peter’s Square on Thursday. Conversely, Pope Leo, born Robert Francis Prevost, introduced himself ...

As newly elected Pope Leo XIV — a native son of Chicago — made his first appearance on the loggia at St. Peter’s Basilica, Cardinal Blase Cupich looked on from an adjacent balcony, keenly aware of the ...

The first American pope is succeeding a church leader whose strong stances on migration and climate change were strikingly at odds with those of the American president. So one question now about the ...

With the surprise nomination of Augustinian Fr. Robert Prevost as bishop of Peru's fifth-largest city, Pope Francis sent a message to a fractured Peruvian episcopate. At the time, Peru's bishops were ...