Fitzgerald, who spent his career in real estate private equity, said American donors — especially the younger generation — ...

In his first official appointment, Pope Leo named a woman to head a major Vatican office. Sister Simona Brambilla is now the ...

Prevost was brought to the Vatican in 2023 by Pope Francis as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St.

On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pope, Leo XIV.

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic ...

The Reverend James Bretzke, a theology professor at John Carroll University in Ohio, told USA Today this week that a diplomat ...

The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...

Prevost, 69, is a Chicago native and a Villanova graduate. He said his chosen papal name would be Pope Leo XIV.

Cardinal Robert Prevost – a Chicago native who spent his career ministering to the poor in Peru – has been elected the 267 th pope, marking the first American pontiff in the Catholic Church ...

Habemus papam!” Those words echoed to the faithful around the world, including those waiting outside St. Peter’s Basilica as jubilous cheers erupted from the crowd. “We have a pope!” In his first ...

Rev. Mark Francis, a friend of Prevost since the 1970s, told Reuters the cardinal was a firm supporter of his predecessor's papacy, and especially of the late pontiff's commitment to social justice ...